Pashto Proverbs

پشتو متلونه

Topic: Fate - تقدير

With the exception of the first, all under this head teach a doctrine familiar to us as one of the canons of belief of all Musalmans, namely, that whatever befalls a man was his destiny, with which there is no striving. Though all natives are fatalists, still I think the limits to which their fatalism is supposed to lead are often mis-understood. It is only the spiritless and disappointed who resign themselves to their "Nasib" and ascribe all their failures in life to it; but it is not so with others, who hold, with most of ourselves, that, though everything that occurs was fore-ordained, that is, that God in his omniscience and prescience knew what would happen, still man is in a great measure a free agent, and "himself can change or fix his fate". The first proverb, which is now a household word to many, asserts this pretty plainly. - [S.S. Thorburn., Bannu Our Afghan Frontier]

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• Destiny is a saddled ass, he goes wherever you lead him
  نصيب يو کنه کړې خر دې؛ چې چېرته ئې بيائې هلته به ځي
  This dictum is a contrast to those following it. He must have been a bold man who first asserted it.
   

• Though you go to Kabul, your appointed lot will follow you there.
  که ته لاړ شې تر کابله برخه به ځي در پسې خپله
   

• Man's lot is (fixed) from the creation, it is not (attained) by force of competition
  برخې ازلي دي؛ نه په زور او نه په سيالې دي
   

• Had your pen been in my hand, I would have marked you "fortunate"
  که ستا قلم ځما په لاس وې، ما به ستا ليک په نيکبختي وهلې ؤو
  That is, I would have done so, had I at your birth had the filling in of your destiny in the Book of Fate
   

• Without destiny, food is difficult
  بې نصيبه خواړه ګران دي
   

• The inevitable laughs at man's schemes
  تقدير په تدبير پورې خاندي
  The same as our "Man proposes, God disposes"
   

• The goat was fleeing from the wolf, and spent the night in the butcher's house
  ؤزه له ليوه تښتېده او د قصاب کره ئې شپه شوه
  That is, he went "out of the frying pan into the fire" in trying to escape his fate
   

• I was escaping from Ram, and fell on hard work
  له رام رام نه تښتېدم او په کام ؤاوښتم
  The story goes, that a Muslim king ordered a Hindu to repeat "Ram Ram" daily when attending his person, but the Hindu, thinking this is tyranny, absconded, and was captured and sold as a slave. The meaning is the same as the last proverb.
   

• Were the whole world to turn physician, the cure rests entirely with fate.
  که ټول جهان طبيب شي، چارې واړه په نصيب شي
   

• There is no fleeing from one's lot, there is no sharing it with another
  له خپلې برخې تيښت نه شته، او له پردې برخې ويش نه شته

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