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Valiyu’llah Varqa (1884/5 - 1955) One of the Translators Who Accompanied ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in America
April 11, 1912
New York City
Mirza Valiyu’llah Khan-i-Varqa (1884–1955) (Persian: میرزا ولیاللهخان ورقا) was a prominent Persian Bahá’í, and appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi.
He was the son of Varqa, the martyr-poet, and the father of ‘Ali-Muhammad Varqa, (1911 – 2007).
Vali’u’llah Varqa joined ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s entourage while he traveled across America. He was appointed Trustee of the Huququ’llah in 1940 and a Hand of the Cause in 1951.
-Wikipedia; see also Lights of Fortitude, 329-332
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