Varqá

Varqá

Varqá ( _ar. ورقا), born Mírzá `Alí-Muhammad ( _ar. ميرزا علي محمد) (d. 1896), was an eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, a global religion of Persian origin. Varqá was referred to by `Abdu'l-Bahá as a Hand of the Cause of God, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.

Bahá'u'lláh wrote a [http://bahai-library.com/provisionals/lawh.varqa.html tablet] addressed to Varqá, praising the high station of the King and Beloved of Martyrs.

Execution

Varqá is well known as the father of Rúhu'lláh. The two of them were the first among a large group to be martyred in 1896 by Persian authorities for being Bahá'ís. This story is summarized from Balyuzi's book.

The executioner, Hajibu'd Dawlih, was particularly enraged with his prisoners, and brought out Varqá and Rúhu'lláh into an inner room. Varqá's calm reply to questioning further maddened his captors. The executioner plunged a dagger into the chest of Varqá saying 'How are you?' to which Varqá repllied 'Feeling better than you'. Hajibu'd Dawlih then asked him which should die first, him or his son Rúhu'lláh, to which Varqá replied 'It is the same to me.'

Hajibu'd Dawlih and four others then began to tear Varqá apart in front of his son. He made an offer to Rúhu'lláh that he could be adopted, offered an allowance, given a post in the government, but Rúhu'lláh asked to join his father instead. Hajibu'd Dawlih then strangled him with a bastinado. After his dead body fell to the ground, Rúhu'lláh's body raised and then fell to the ground again, a yard away. The experience scared Hajibu'd Dawlih so much that he ran away screaming.

Family

The son of Varqá, Valíyu'lláh Varqá, later was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi in 1951. When the latter died in 1955, the grandson of Varqá, `Alí-Muhammad Varqá was appointed in his place.

References

*cite book
author=Balyuzi, H.M.
year=1985
title=Eminent Bahá'ís in the time of Bahá'u'lláh
publisher=The Camelot Press Ltd, Southampton
id=ISBN 0853981523

*cite book
first=Barron
last=Harper
year=1997
title=Lights of Fortitude
edition=Paperback
publisher=George Ronald
location=Oxford, UK
id=ISBN 0853984131



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