Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos
Gardoon
गर्दूँ
said gar-DOON
also written: gardun, gardoun
Meaning
The revolving sky, the heavens; figuratively fate.
Literally: Persian gardun: the turning sphere of the sky.
How Iqbal uses it
Gardoon is another name for the wheeling heaven held responsible for fortune's turns; Iqbal's free ego challenges the gardoon, insisting that man can command the sky rather than be commanded by it.