93 O My brother!  If thou be a champion of this arena, speed within the lands of certitude, that thy soul may be delivered in this day from the bondage of misbelief, and that thou mayest perceive the sweet savours that waft from this garden.  Verily, the perfume-laden breezes that carry the fragrance of this city blow over all regions.  Forfeit not thy portion thereof and be not of the heedless.  How well hath it been said: 

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    His fragrant breaths diffused in Eastern lands could well
    To sick ones in the West restore their sense of smell!(59)

95 After this heavenly journey and mystical ascent the wayfarer will enter within the Garden of Wonderment.  Were I to disclose unto thee the reality of this station, thou wouldst lament and bewail the plight of this Servant Who remaineth in the hands of these infidels, Who hath grown perplexed at his plight, and is lost in bewilderment in this fathomless ocean.  They conspire each day to put Me to death, and seek at every hour to banish Me from this land, even as they banished Me from another land.  Yet this Servant standeth ready before them, awaiting whatsoever the Almighty hath ordained and decreed for Us.  Nor do I fear any soul, encompassed as We may be by such trials and tribulations as are inflicted by the wicked and the malicious and surrounded at this hour by a myriad woes and sorrows.  “Noah’s flood is but the measure of the tears I have shed, and Abraham’s fire an ebullition of My soul.  Jacob’s grief is but a reflection of My sorrows, and Job’s afflictions a fraction of My calamity."(60)

96 Were I to recount unto thine eminence the dire adversities that have befallen Me, thou wouldst be so grieved as to forsake the mention of all things and to forget thyself and all that the Lord hath created on earth.  But as this is not Our wish, I have concealed the revelation of the divine decree in the heart of Baha and veiled it from the eyes of all that move in the realm of creation, that it may lay hid within the tabernacle of the Unseen until such time as God will have revealed its secret.  “Naught in the heavens or on the earth can escape His knowledge, and He, verily, perceiveth all things."(61)

97 As We have digressed from Our theme, let Us leave aside these allusions and return to Our discussion of this city.  Verily, whoso entereth therein shall be saved, and whoso turneth aside therefrom will assuredly perish.

98 O thou who art mentioned in these Tablets!  Know thou that he who embarketh upon this journey will marvel at the signs of the power of God and the wondrous evidences of His handiwork.  Bewilderment will seize him from every side, even as hath been attested by that Essence of immortality from the Concourse on high:  “Increase My wonder and amazement at Thee, O God!"(62) Well hath it been said: 

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    I knew not what amazement was
        Until I made Thy love my cause. 
    O how amazing would it be
        If I were not amazed by Thee!(63)