and Ek Tarha Ka Pagalpan[20] (A Sort of Madness) [21][22][23][24] Rahman's first novel is Nakhalistan Ki Talash (Search of an Oasis) published in 2004.
[25][26][27] Nakhlistan Ki Talash had created a storm in the conservative Urdu literary circles, and Rahman resigned from his post as lecturer in a junior college in Mumbai.
[28] The novel tells the story of a young educated Muslim man whose increasing alienation in a post-1992 Mumbai leads him to a Kashmiri militant organization.
[29] He won the state Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his third didactic novel Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi.
[30][31][32] Pakistani author Mustansar Hussain Tarar stated that Rahman's latest novel Rohzin is a fearless creative narration.