Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Bakht-e-Siyaah

बख़्त-ए-सियाह

said bakht-e-si-yaah

Meaning

Black fortune; ill-luck, an unlucky and adverse fate.

Literally: black fortune

How Iqbal uses it

Black fortune names the dark turn of luck in Iqbal, an adversity the self-reliant ego confronts rather than submits to, trusting its own fire over the stars.

See it in the verse

Bakht-e-Siyaah 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.

Love · Unity · Hope

Related words

PERSIAN

BaKht

Fortune, luck, fate.

ARABIC

Nahoosat

Ill-omen, inauspiciousness, unlucky or evil influence.

ARABIC

Shaamat

Misfortune, ill-luck, calamity; an evil turn of fate.

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