Parwana

The moth that circles a flame and burns itself in the fire it loves.

Literally: moth

The parwana is the moth that circles a candle until it burns — the perfect lover who proves love by self-annihilation in the beloved's flame. It is the classical emblem of ishq that does not count the cost, the wordless devotee set against the noisy, complaining nightingale. In Iqbal the figure is double-edged: he honours the parwana's total surrender, yet his philosophy of khudi can tilt it toward a self that burns to become rather than merely to vanish — fire as ascent, not only as oblivion.