Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

BaKht

बख़्त

said BAKHT

also written: bakht

Meaning

Fortune, luck, fate.

Literally: Persian bakht: luck, the lot apportioned by fortune.

How Iqbal uses it

BaKht is fortune as luck or fate; in Iqbal's vision good fortune is not passively awaited but won, for the striving self bends even bakht to its will.

See it in the verse

BaKht in Iqbal’s couplets

Mohabbat hi se payi hai shifa beemar qaumon ne
Kiya hai apne bakht-e-khufta ko bedar qaumon ne

It is by love that ailing peoples have found their cure — by love that peoples have woken their sleeping fortune.

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Related words

ARABIC

Kismat

Fate, destiny, one's portion in life.

ARABIC

Naseeb

Fate, destiny, one's allotted portion or fortune.

ARABIC

Taale

Fortune, luck, ascendant star; one's fate.

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