نجس

The civic damage is granular. A Bahá'í baker cannot reliably sell bread to Shia customers in a conservative town. A Christian janitor cannot handle food in some workplaces. Mixed-faith intermarriage hits the najes wall at the in-laws' kitchen. The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has documented decades of cases where the najes-classification translated into lost income, lost jobs, lost dignity. Theology weaponized through a thousand small refusals.