Rumi says "I have tried it."
Not that he read it, nor that he heard it.

My death was in life.
When freed from this life,
there was permanence.

One does not begin before the other ends.
One is not understood without the other.

So it is with passing away and union.
They are told as two events.
For the one who lives them,
they are two faces of a single truth.

The one speaking here has tried it.