Which Novels Are Not Haram?
In all such matters, the rule is the following verse that provides 5 criteria to declare something haram. Verse 7: 33 قُلْ إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّيَ الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ وَالْإِثْمَ وَالْبَغْيَ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَأَن تُشْرِكُوا بِاللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهِ سُلْطَانًا وَأَن تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ Say: My Lord has only forbidden lewd acts, whether open or hidden [338] and usurping rights and wrongful oppression and that you associate with God that for which He did not send down any sanction and that you fabricate something about God that you know not. If anything like a novel, movie or clothing, etc. falls into any of these five categories, it is haram, if not then not haram and this has to be decided by the person concerned.