Originally Posted by Malmeena Khan

In favour of luck I would just quote of one of well known Pashto poet Rahman baba who said " Don't ask for wisdom O Rahman, Luck is good rather... as wise are the slaves of lucky ones."

But one should not stop hard work only for this sour truth that luck wins over hard work. Because here again is a proverb in Persian which states " Himmat e marda'n , Madad e Khuda" means a hard worker is helped by Allah.