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Album of Views - "The Room of Baha'o'llah and His Divan in the house of the Rizwan."
New Commentary - In 1875 `Abdu'l-Bahá rented a garden not far from the walls of `Akká. Bahá'u'lláh named it Ridván (Paradise). Within the garden is a small house (see photo 08) with two plain upper rooms. This picture shows one of those two rooms. (See the map on the inside cover of the book "Bahá'í Holy Places" to locate the Ridván Garden.)
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Album of Views - "The Two Mulberry trees, which form "a tent without pole or rope". One of the two "thrones" is seen on your right."
New Commentary - The Garden of Ridván near `Akká. The bench just behind the mulberry tree on the left is one of the seats occupied by Bahá'u'lláh when He visited the garden.
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Album of Views - "Two seats on which Baha'o'llah used to sit under the trees. Abdul Kazim, the gardener of Baha, stands on the steps leading to the stream which flows through the garden."
New Commentary - The Ridván Garden was originally named Na'mayn after the Na'mayn River which used to flow through it. Bahá'u'lláh named it Ridván (Paradise) and called it the 'New Jerusalem' and 'Our Verdant Isle.' Abu'l-Qásim served Bahá'u'lláh and then `Abdu'l-Bahá in the Garden of Ridván for many years. He was not, however, the first gardener of Ridván; that honor belongs to `Abdu's-Salíh (see `Abdu'l-Bahá's account of `Abdu's-Salíh in "Memorials of the Faithful", pp. 26-28.) See photo 37 for a closeup view of Abu'l-Qásim. Mr. Taherzadeh describes Abu'l-Qásim's life on pages 28-32 of "The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh," Vol. 4.
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Album of Views - "The house of Baha'o'llah in the garden of Rizwan near Acca."
New Commentary - "Bahá'u'lláh rested, dined and at times revealed Tablets" here.