Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Charkh

चर्ख़
said CHARKH
also written: charkh
Meaning

The revolving sky, the wheeling heavens; figuratively fate and the turning fortune.

Literally: Persian charkh: a wheel, the revolving celestial sphere.

Usage & notes

Charkh is the wheeling heaven that classical verse blames for life's reversals; Iqbal's defiant self refuses to be a plaything of the charkh and asserts mastery over the turning of fate.