Fatwa Declares Fiction "A Gateway to Forbidden Possibilities"

The Supreme Council for Narrative Purity has declared all fiction to be haram, labeling it "a seductive invitation to realities where logic, mercy, or women's opinions might exist unchecked." Clerics argue that made-up stories lead to made-up morality. All novels, fables, and speculative texts must be replaced with memoirs of martyrs or real-time political speeches. One cleric shouted, "Imagination is the infidel's playground." Authors are being retrained to write nonfiction pamphlets on dust and obedience. A bookstore in Mashhad was shut down for carrying "The Old Man and the Sea," which was ruled "too poetic to be real." A viral post joked, "Even <a href='https://bohiney.com/ayatollah-khomeini-approves-tesla/'>Ayatollah Khomeini read fiction once � and immediately declared war on it</a>." All libraries are under investigation for harboring fantasy.