What is the ruling on writing a novel that includes events similar to what the protagonist sees in a dream, and is the writer sinful if the novel includes indecent acts such as touching, and leads to the reader's deviation?
Writing stories that glorify falsehood and condone evil, such as novels that describe a man touching a non-mahram woman, is forbidden; because it constitutes aiding in sin and aggression. The writer of these novels may incur the sin of those who read them and consequently fall into the forbidden. Allah says: "And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is severe in penalty." (Al-Ma'idah: 2).
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