Then I become nonexistence; nonexistence, like an organ, tells me: "To Him we shall return."
پس عدم گردم عدم چون ارغنون / گویدم که انا الیه راجعون
Pes adem gerdem adem çün ergunûn / gûyedem ke innâ ileyhi râci'ûn.
Rumi, Masnavi III/3906.
Here Rumi describes a ladder.
From mineral to plant, from plant to animal,
from animal to human, from human to angel.
On every rung one dies.
In no death is anything lessened.
On the last rung
nothing with a name remains.
Nonexistence.
But that nonexistence does not fall silent either.
It plays like an organ:
He is where we return.
The last word is not left to silence.