ʻAlí-Muhammad Varqá (Persian: علي محمد ورقا; 1911 – 22 September 2007) was a prominent adherent of the Baháʼí Faith.
He was the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God, an appointed position in the Baháʼí Faith whose main function is to propagate and protect the religion on the international level.
Varqá was born in 1911 in Tehran, Iran to a well-known Iranian Baháʼí family.
[1] After his father's death, Varqá was appointed as a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi on November 15, 1955.
[1] In 1979, he moved to Canada and later to Haifa, Israel where the Baháʼí World Centre is located.