If you agree that there are allegorical verses then by definition allegories address the imagination.
These verses are addressed to our heart to understand their meaning.
Also, the term is actually used in several other passages and not only in 20:66. It is used to denote haughtiness/arrogance is 4:36, 31:18, and 57:23. Of course, haughtiness/arrogance is a product of the human fantasy.
Everything we do is governed by thought.
I created a thread dedicated to thought, inspiration and creativity :
https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9611105.0It is also used directly in relation to Iblis/"jinn" in 17:64: ... and bring on them with your fantasies and your foot...
17:64 "And entice whoever you can of them with your voice, and mobilize all
your forces / cavalry /alkhayl and men against them, and you may share with them in their money and children, and promise them." But the devil promises nothing but deceit.
Alkayl doesn't mean imagination = khayal, but forces / cavalry.
I had already said it before, I think the ego is our invisible companion of which the reading speaks.
The ego is always right, wants to have the last word, believes that it can control everything, which is at the origin of the exhaustion of humans.
When the human is identified with a thought, with the physical body, with goods , money, children, professional, family situation..etc he becomes proud, liar, violent, stingy, he think he is powerful ... etc
Consciousness, attention, connection purifies our inner state
https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9611098.0Men among the jin and humans both think.
72:6 "And there were
men from among mankind who used to seek help from
the men among the Jinn, but they only increased them in sin."
72:7 "And
they thought as
you thought, that God would not send anyone."
The word men/rijal has a literal meaning for both humans and jin.
Imagination comes first before invention. We first imagine flying machines and then when we make this fantasy submit to our reason with the truth in the laws of aerodynamics we invent airplanes. On the other hand, if our fantasy controls us then we would go crazy and jump from a high building thinking we could flap our arms and fly.
When we are in a state of mental void, we receive inspiration to create directly from the infinite source of creativity.
https://free-minds.org/forum/index.php?topic=9611105.0 So according to your physical interpretation someone who is physically blind and deaf is destined for hell!
That's not what I said, to sum up, a blind man with a healthy heart is able to understand unlike one who sees with a sick, veiled, sealed heart.
Peace