Meaning
Annihilation of the self in God, the highest stage of self-effacement in Sufi doctrine.
Literally: annihilation in God
Usage & notes
Iqbal famously inverts the classical ideal, holding that the self should not be annihilated in God but absorb the divine attributes and grow more intensely itself.
Related words
ARABIC
Fana
Annihilation, passing away; the mystic's extinction of the self in the Beloved, the goal of the Sufi path.
ARABIC
Baqa
Abiding, subsistence in God; the state of renewed being that follows fana in Sufi thought.
PERSIAN
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.