About the same time  when Baha'u'llah moved to Mazra'hi Abdu'l-baha (Baha'u'llah's eldest son)  rented the Garden of Na'mayn, an island situated close to Akka. After His release Baha'u'llah often visited this garden his son and the Persian  believers made beautiful for Him. They brought great quantities of soil from neighboring places building flowers beds all around. From neighboring countries and even across deserts and mountains these believers brought trees, shrubs and flowering plants, some of them very rare. With care they made long hazardous journeys with love and devotion to bring these plants even a white rose from Persia that was a favorite of Baha'u'llah's. The Garden of Ridvan was on a very small island made by a little river that divided to surround it and empty into the sea. In Baha'u'llah's time the gardenwas laid out in flowers beds with many ornamental shrubs and fruit trees. There was a splashing fountain that fed water to all parts of the garden. As it flowed. it came rippling down in a broad stream over a platform under two large mulberry trees. The steams which flowed by the island was about 14-15' wide and 3' deep with abundant fish.  The garden was fringed with weeping willows and the fragrance of Jasmine and orange blossums filled the air. Most of these features are still there save the streams because they have been diverted in recent times.

          The Baha'i community along with Baha'u'llah and his family often had picnics here. There was a small house that He would come to stay in. There are many stories about this Garden and its gardeners that you can find in the chapter 'The Garden of Ridvan' in the 4 th book of the series "The Revelation of Baha'u'llah by Adib Taherzadeh.

         Baha'u'llah wrote several tablets here. A famous one is about trusworthiness. In this tablet Baha'u'llah includes  this that took place in the Garden of Ridvan: " We will now mention unto thee Trustworthiness and the station thereof in the estimation of God, Thy Lord, The Lord of Mighty Throne. One day of days We repaired unto Our Green Island. Upon Our arrival, We beheld its streams flowing, and its trees luxuriant, and the sunlight playing in thier midst. Turning Our face to the right, We beheld what the pen is powerless to describe; nor can it set forth that which the eye of the Lord of Mankind witnessed in that most sanctified, that most sublimed, that blest, and most exalted Spot. Turning, Turning, then, to the left We gazed on one of the Beauties of the Most Sublime Paradise, standing on a pillar of light, and calling aloud saying;'O inmates of earth and heaven! Behold ye My beauty,and My radiance, and My revelation, and My effulgence. By God, the True One! I am Trustworthiness and the revelation thereof, and the beauty thereof. I will recompense whosoever will cleave unto Me, and recognize My rank and station, and hold fast unto My hem. I am the most great ornnament of the people of Baha, and the vesture of glory unto all who are in the kingdom of creation. I am the supreme instrument for the properity of the world, and the horizon of assurance unto all beings.'