I trust that you [members of Isfahan Spiritual Assembly] 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)
