Though Rushdie publicly apologized, the fatwa was not revoked, Imam Khomeini explaining that "even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of all time, it is incumbent on every Muslim to employ everything he has got, his life and wealth, to send him to Hell."
Imam Khumaini ya mayar da kakkausar martini ga wannan bukata ta su yana mai cewa hakan ya saba wa ikirarin riko da tsarin demokradiyyar da Faransan take yi, yana mai karawa da cewa ko da lamarin zai kai ne ya dinga yawo daga wannan filin jirgi zuwa wancan, ba fa zai bar wannan tafarki nasa ba.