Arabic · noun · Spirit & the Divine
Fanaa
फ़ना
said fa-NAA
also written: Faana, fana, fana fillah
Meaning
Annihilation, passing away or the mystical dissolution of the self in the Divine.
Literally: ceasing to be
Usage & notes
Iqbal reworks the Sufi fanaa, arguing the self should be strengthened, not dissolved.
Related words
ARABIC
Baqa
Abiding, subsistence in God; the state of renewed being that follows fana in Sufi thought.
ARABIC
Zawaal
Decline, the sun's passing the meridian toward setting; downfall, decay.
PERSIAN
Khudi
Selfhood; the self, the ego — in the philosophical, not the vain, sense.
ARABIC
Wahdat-ul-Wujood
The doctrine of the Unity of Being, that all existence is a single reality identical with God.