Cruelty, unkindness, the beloved's harsh treatment of the faithful lover.
Literally: cruelty, oppression, tyranny (of the beloved)
Jafa is the cruelty of the beloved — the studied unkindness, the wounds inflicted with a careless beauty. The ghazal turns it into something almost cherished: the lover begs for the beloved's jafa, since even cruelty is a form of attention, better than indifference. To suffer jafa and stay faithful is the lover's strange triumph, proof that love asks nothing back.
Sitam
Tyranny, oppression, cruelty; the wrong the beloved inflicts on the lover.
Zulm
Oppression, injustice, cruelty; the beloved's tyranny or any wrong done.
Wafa
Faithfulness, fidelity, keeping of the vow of love.
Bewafai
Faithlessness, infidelity, the breaking of the pledge of love.
Taghaful
Deliberate inattention or feigned negligence by the beloved, who pretends not to notice the lover.
Sitamgar
A tyrant, an oppressor; the cruel beloved who torments the lover.