Translations:Dahr/1/en

There are two types of time. There is time as we use the word today (زمن zamān - وقت waqt) and time as a symbols of life and death (رموز الحياة والموت rumūz al-ḥayāt wa-l-mawt). Time is the determining factor of fate in pre-Islamic poetry and is not itself determined by some other power. And although time and fate are conceptually different, they are closely bound as seen in the multitude of terms used by the Arabian poets with dual meaning such as dahr (دهر), zamān (زمن era) and ayyām (أيام days) used for expressing reversals of fortune.