I trust that you [members of the Spiritual Assembly of Isfahan] may make the land of Isfahan a salubrious
fountain, so that the cool water of knowledge and the flowing river of
assurance may make that region the envy of the green garden of Paradise. That
city was illumined with the presence of His Highness, the Bab, after He left
Shiraz; the Word of God was promulgated; many blessed souls became believers; a
number of them hastened toward the arena of martyrdom; his highness, the leader
of the righteous ones, the "King of the Martyrs," and the master of
the friends, the "Beloved of Martyrs," gave up their lives at the
altar of love. His Highness, Ashraf, and many other martyrs drank the cup of
trials and sacrificed their lives with the utmost severance. Therefore, it is
the hope of ‘Abdu’l-Baha that that region may become the Green Garden and that
city the delectable Paradise.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet; Star of the West
vol. 1, no. 14, November 23, 1910)
