Persian · noun · Time, Fate & the Cosmos

Gardoon-e-Doon

गर्दूँ-ए-दूँ
Meaning

The base, mean firmament; the sky reviled as low and treacherous.

Literally: vile heaven

How Iqbal uses it

When fortune turns cruel the poet curses the gardoon-e-doon, the contemptible wheel that lifts the unworthy and crushes the noble.