Tawhid

I died to the mineral state and became a plant,
I died to the vegetable state and reached animality,
I died to the animal state and became a man,
Then what should I fear? I have never become less from dying.
At the next charge forward I will die to human nature,
So that I may lift up my head and wings and soar among the angels,
And I must also jump from the river of the state of the angel,
Everything perishes except His Face,
Once again I will become sacrificed from the state of the angel,
I will become that which cannot come into the imagination,
Then I will become non-existent; non-existence says to me in tones like an organ,
Truly, to Him is our return.

- Rumi