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Tira-bakht

तीरा-बख़्त

also written: Tira-baKHt

Meaning

Ill-starred, unfortunate, of a dark destiny.

Literally: dark of fortune

See it in the verse

Tira-bakht 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

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