fana (al-fanā’)

(Language: Arabic)

Short Description: Extinction, evanescence

Long Description: In Sufism, a designation for the extinction of individual limitation in the state of union with God.

Sources: Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt)

Notes & References: See Qur’ān (55:26): “Everything on it (the earth) is transitory (fānī); there remains only the Countenance of thy Lord, the essence of Majesty and of Bounty.”