The novel opens by confronting the reader with an intricate, borderline philosophical problem: Is the relationship between humans and the Jinn a reality or a myth? Can a Jinn truly inhabit a human body? The book gives the reader complete freedom of thought—forcing them to either lean toward rationalism (which rejects anything that cannot be logically explained) or accept irrationalism (which embraces a world with an entirely different system and set of measures outside our normal human experience).