احکام الہی
اک آن میں سو بار بدل جاتی ہے تقدیرہے اس کا مقلد ابھی ناخوش، ابھی خورسند
English translation
The Wheel of Fate spins hundred times within the twinkling of the eye; he, who follows freaks of Fate, anon is down and anon is high.
Translated by Syed Akbar Ali Shah
Word meanings
خورسند: خوش باش۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 2 of 3 in “احکام الہی” (Decrees Of God) in the section Islam and Muslim, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Zarb-e-Kalim (ضربِ کلیم), published in 1936.
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