So I would actually strongly disagree with this perspective and counter that the concept of imagination may be mis-understood. The imaginal faculty is a trust that Allah gave to us to use and using it is one of the best ways to better know ourselves and our Creator. The authors listed here should be understood as fiction authors (and great authors at that!), in fact anything other than divine scripture should be understood to be fiction. Fiction (as we see even more so today with immersive storytelling experiences like VR) is a perfectly natural and good way to explore human potentialities so that we can progress closer and closer to perfected human states of being (and theoretically work out errors to better avoid falling into mistakes). I think it is a true shame that our tradition has not honored this path. We more than any other civilization have been gifted the pen and yet we have hardly begun to contemplate the vastness of the Ink.