Wa `alaykum as-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

 

In answering your question, I cannot do any better than citing here one of my earlier answers on a similar question:

 

To choose writing as a career is indeed a great thing–provided you wield the weapon rightly.  In other words, writing as a career is not different from any other mediums. For any medium can be used for good or bad. Allah in the Qur’an contrasts the two approaches to poetry. While condemning the work of poets who plied their trade to vilify Islam and the Prophet and promote pagan ideals, Allah praised those who used their talent to promote truth and virtue. Great Muslim poets such as Hassan, Abd Allah b. Rawahah, and Ka’b b. Malik were among them. The Prophet described their work as more effective than the swords. Therefore, you have a choice to use your weapon for promoting truth and virtue and thus help make a positive influence on society. If this is your goal, then I would urge you to embrace it and excel in it.

 

In regard to describing beautiful women and their adornments you need to ask: what am I seeking to achieve? Is my work going to promote truth and virtue does it contribute to corruption and vices in society? Once you are clear about the purity of your goal, you need to ask, am I doing it by abiding by the rules of Islamic ethics of modesty, purity and acceptable ways of interaction between males and females, etc.? If you can be satisfied on these grounds, there is nothing wrong with such descriptions.

 

In light of the above, we can safely conclude the following: Whether we are dealing with poetry or fiction or non-fiction, the same rule applies: One should ask: What precise benefit does my work serve? Does it help to make the world a better place in terms of morals, ethics, peace, God-consciousness? Or rather, does it contribute to wickedness, corruption, and loose morals? Allah says, “There is no good in much of their secret conferences except (in) him who enjoins charity or kindness or peace-making among the people. Whoever does that, seeking the pleasure of Allah, We shall bestow on him an immense reward.” (Qur’an: 4: 114).

 

To conclude: If your poetry deal with beneficial themes of contributing to a higher moral and spiritual vision or perfection, then it is highly recommended. If, on the contrary, it has the opposite effects, then it is haraam. If, still on the other hand, it is none of the above, but constitutes a simple, innocent entertainment that entails no harmful effect whatsoever, then it shall be deemed as permissible—provided it does not take you away from your higher mission of worshipping Allah, the Creator.

 

I pray to Allah to bless you in your career and make you an instrument of good in the world.

Almighty Allah knows best.