O soul at peace! Return to your Lord, well-pleased with Him and He well-pleased with you. Enter among My servants. Enter My Paradise.
يا أيتها النفس المطمئنة ارجعي إلى ربك راضية مرضية فادخلي في عبادي وادخلي جنتي
Yā ayyatuha'n-nafsu'l-mutma'inna. Irji'ī ilā rabbiki rāḍiyatan marḍiyya. Fa'dkhulī fī 'ibādī. Wa'dkhulī jannatī.
The Holy Qur'an, Surah Al-Fajr 89:27-30.
The book's last word is a call.
In the eighth chapter, Surah Ar-Ra'd told us what hearts find rest in; here the same root becomes an attribute of the soul: mutmainna.
The verse does not say "come," it says "return"; the place one goes to is the place one came from.
Through nine gates, Yunus Emre and Rilke, Hallaj and Heraclitus all described this path.
The chapter opened with the news that everything is perishing; it closes with the invitation of what endures.