تحفة النظار في غرايب الامصار وعجايب الاسفار 12.42.2

12.42.2

"Let them taste something" — meaning of torture. They were laid flat on their backs, and a red-hot iron plate was placed on the chest of each of them, then torn off after a moment, taking the flesh of their chests with it; then urine and ashes were taken and put on those wounds. They then confessed against themselves that they had aimed only at what the Sultan had said, and that they were criminals deserving death, with no right or claim for their blood in this world or the next. They wrote this in their own hand and acknowledged it before the qāḍī, who registered it on the deed and wrote in it that their confession was made without coercion or compulsion; had they said, "We were coerced," they would have been tortured most severely. They judged that a swift beheading was better for them than dying under painful torture, and so they were killed, may God Most High have mercy on them!