Fitrat and “Abulfayzxon”

“Abulfayzxon” is a “tragedy in five acts from the history of the Yoqsul land”; the textbook gives it abridged (Acts One, Four and Five). In Act One, while Ulfat, Mir Vafo and Qozi Nizom are playing chess, the khan comes in; suspicious of Farhod otaliq, he has him killed and appoints Ibrohimbiy otaliq and Rahim qo‘rchi to‘qsoba in his place, while Ibrohimbiy says he cannot give up honesty. In this scene Ulfat compares kingship to “a tree watered with blood,” and at night the ghosts of people the khan has had killed torment him in his sleep. In Act Four Rahimbiy has seized power and the khan is under house arrest; Ulfat digs a tunnel and comes to help him escape, but the khan, thinking of his children, does not dare to flee and dies at the hands of executioners. In Act Five the blind Ibrohimbiy tells Rahimbiy that a qurultoy should have been called so that the khan and otaliq were chosen with the council of the elders, and that a throne taken unjustly will not pass to his children; Rahimbiy lies to the Iranian commanders that the khan took his own life, and then also does away with the 15-year-old Abdumo‘minxon, whom he had placed on the throne, by poisoning him. At the end the Vision (Xayol), who calls himself Siyovush, appears before Rahimbiy and condemns the tyrannical throne that sacrifices the innocent.