There are over thousands of Muslim stories on Wattpad that have the concept of 'love before marriage'. Yes, thousands, I'm not even exaggerating the number.
In most of the stories, you will find that the main leads marry at the end of the book when they are done doing all the Haram throughout the book.
Their idea of 'romance' is love before marriage. There is no such thing like love before marriage in Islam.
Do we not know what we are representing by this writing this concept? That, we Muslims are absolutely fine with love before marriage.
Ibn Al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy upon him) the great scholar of Islam, he said:
And the cure for this deadly illness (love before marriage) is for the person that is afflicted to realise that this love is only due to his/her own delusions and ignorance.
So upon such a person is to first and foremost strengthen their Tawheed and reliance upon Allah and secondly to increase in worship and busy themselves with it, so much so that they do not have any spare time letting their minds wander and think about their beloved.
They should call upon Allah to protect them and save them from this evil, just as Prophet Yusuf عليه السلام called upon Allāh and he was saved and they should do as he did, be as he was, in terms of ikhlaas (sincerity) and remembering Allah in abundance.
This is because if the heart is filled with ikhlaas for the sake of Allah, there will be no space left for any unlawful love to be present. Rather, this only happens to a heart that is empty and has no ikhlaas whatsoever.
[Ad-Daa' wa Ad-Dawa', pg. 300]
I'm quite sure some people will bring the old, worn out statement. Again. 'But this is just a fiction'.
I ask you, by Allah, did Allah gave us some sort of on and off mode so that we can turn off Islam when we are writing fiction and turn it back on when we are living our lives?
Is this our respect for our beloved religion? I ask Allah to protect us from this severe Fitnah.
If a book is judged by its cover, then an author is judged by her book. By writing such books, author have publicise a part of herself for the world to witness. Because, an author will write that which she loves and that which she desire, if she is a Muslim yet her idea of Hijab in her book is blouse, pants and makeup then to some extent, she supports such dress code.
Our Ustadh said a very beautiful statement: "The Haram type of love is where you love something which leads you to seek the pleasure of that thing over the pleasure of Allah."
For example an author loves to write romance novels, so much so that her romance novel is just like non-Muslim romance novels. The only difference is the headscarf on her head. Other than that, the female lead wear blouses and pants, has male friends, meets a special guy, they fall in love and happily ever after.
If you're writing such story then do not fool yourself or your readers by calling it a 'Muslim Romance Novel'. It is anything but that.
Putting the pleasure of fiction writing so much so that you start neglecting the Commands of Allah and Laws of Islam; it is Haram, prohibited.
Feeling attraction toward opposite sex is something entirely different. Wattpad Muslim books does not have this concept in their books. Feeling strong attraction toward an opposite sex is not under our control and there is no blame upon us.
However, Wattpad Muslim books go beyond this, neglecting conditions of modesty and shyness.
Talking, looking, laughing and hanging out with male who is your Non-Mehram, this is Haram and will be a sin if one commits it deliberately knowing that it is prohibited.
That's what happens on Wattpad, right? They know a certain action is against Islam yet they do it.
Fear Allah.
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