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- Died
- 1896
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1 identifiers linking Varqá across the web's reference databases
5 statements · 20% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
1 identifiers linking Varqá across the web's reference databases
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Varqá, born Mírzá ʻAlí-Muḥammad, was an Iranian poet, student of traditional Iranian medicine, and an early teacher of the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼu'lláh gave him the title Varqá, meaning "dove" in Arabic, in recognition of his poetry. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá posthumously designated him a Hand of the Cause, and Shoghi Effendi later included him among the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh. Varqá and his twelve-year-old son Rúhu'lláh were killed in Tehran on 2 May 1896, one day after the assassination of Naser al-Din Shah.