Non-fiction substructure of story narration in Masnavi Manavi and holy Quran

The current study, carrying a comparative perspective, is an attempt to present the commonalities in Masnavi and Quran with respect to the notion of fiction making. As the analyses provided by this study claim, Quran and Masnavi, despite applying fiction-making strategies, avoid this strategy and, on the basis of this feature, shape the fiction narration and lead the audience to the main point of the narration. Respecting the question that “how is this possible that fiction-making happens while standing off the fiction”, the impact of multiple factors such as the revelation structure, moral idealism, different usage of imagination in storytelling, reality and virtuality of language, and purpose of the story in those pre-mentioned texts can be addressed. Via using descriptive-analytical method and library and attribution studies, it can be concluded that by going beyond the common ways of imaginary contexts (i.e., metaphorical), virtual attribution will lead to reinforcement of fiction narration destruction, which, finally, assists these two texts to stand off the fiction. Furthermore, the difference in Quran and Masnavi`s aim for storytelling leads to creating fiction without telling exact details and without making contexts that are fit with the nature of narration and actions/reactions of fiction characters. So, these features enable these texts to deeply stand off the fiction and be different from readers` normal exceptions in fiction reading.