قصۂ مقتول جفا
By حافظ امیر الدین دہلوی
Cover: Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings (c. 1615-18), opaque watercolour and gold by Bichitr (active c. 1585-1650) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died in the 17th century)
Hafiz Amiruddin Dehlvi's Qissa Maqtool-e-Jafa, also called Fasana-e-Gham-Amood, is a short dastan of the nineteenth century in the old storyteller's manner. It opens in a great, prosperous city of India, where the king puts a question to his four ministers and three of them refuse to answer it. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.