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040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
100			_9118 _aBoris Handal
245			_aVarqá and Rúhu’lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move
260			_bBoris Handal _c2020
300			_axx, 317 p.
500			_aThis is the extraordinary story of a father and a son that arose in the 19th century to spread the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh throughout Iran with indomitable strength and resilience. Varqá the father, a physician and a talented poet, and his gifted adolescent son Rúḥu’lláh, both of penetrating spiritual insight, took the New Gospel with zeal and courage to a generation blind in the most dire fanaticism. Operating in the midst of a country sunk into corruption and bigotry, Varqá and Rúḥu’lláh were able to teach both the rich and the poor, the prince and the commoner, the scholar and the illiterate, the believer and the laic, in freedom or in prison. Their saga ended with their tragic martyrdom in the royal prison of Tehran in 1896 but has continued to live like a legend inspiring Bahá’ís around the world to serve. Varqá’s legacy of service and consecration was continued by Valíyu’lláh Varqá and Dr ‘Alí-Muḥammad Varqá, his son and grandson, respectively, all three of whom were designated as Hands of the Cause of God.
600		0	_9947 _aMírzá ʻAlí-Muhammad (Varqa) _c"Dove"
600		0	_9948 _aRúhu'lláh Varqá
650		0	_aPersecution _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9371
650		0	_9926 _aMartyrdom _vBaha'i Faith
856			_3PDF _uhttps://library.abs.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=4aa1f1a09347366b8f9ad4596a447616 _yVarqá and Rúhu’lláh: 101 Stories of Bravery on the Move
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