Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos
Charkh-e-kaj-raftaar
चर्ख़-ए-कज-रफ़्तार
said charkh-e-kaj-raf-TAAR
Meaning
The crooked-moving sky; the heaven whose perverse turning brings misfortune.
Literally: the wheel of crooked gait
How Iqbal uses it
A bitter epithet for the firmament that never runs true to the wishes of the deserving; its crooked course is held to blame for the world's injustice.
See it in the verse