According to the Bahá ' í teachings the human purpose is to learn to know and love God through such methods as prayer, reflection, and being of service to humankind.

According to the census of 1998, the religious breakdown of the city was as follows: Muslim ( 96. 45 %); Christian ( 2. 42 %); Hindu ( 0. 86 %); Ahmadiyya ( 0. 17 %); Others ( 0. 10 %) ( Parsis, Sikhs, Bahá ' ís, Jews and Buddhists ).

According to Bahá ' í writings, there will not be another messenger for many hundreds of years.

According to its constitution, the Universal House of Justice itself states that " The provenance, the authority, the duties, the sphere of action of the Universal House of Justice all derive from the revealed Word of Bahá ' u ' lláh which, together with the interpretations and expositions of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and of Shoghi Effendi ... constitute the binding terms of reference of the Universal House of Justice and are its bedrock foundation.

According to the 2010 U. S. Religious Census, Marion County had the highest concentration of followers of the Bahá ' í Faith of any county in the United States, at 5. 5 %.

According to the directive, the Supreme Revolutionary Council instructed government agencies to block the progress and development of the Bahá ' í community, expel Bahá ' í students from universities, cut Bahá ' í links with groups outside the country, restrict employment of Bahá ' ís, and deny Bahá ' ís " positions of influence ," including in education.

According to a US panel, attacks on Bahá ' ís in Iran have increased since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became president as well as Sunni Muslims.

According to the Times Higher Education, Bahá ' í educators are required to renounce their faith in order to teach in Iranian universities.

According to one tradition This aspect of fulfillment corresponds with the Bahá ' í beliefs that end times prophesies of all the world's religions are to be interpreted mystically and metaphorically.

According to some interpretations, Muhammad ` Alí insisted that he should instead be regarded as the leader of the Bahá ' ís.

According to her daughter, Ásíyih would go the home of her aunt to find any news of Bahá ’ u ’ lláh.

According to Bahá ' í sources, her mother gladly accepted this request and the two became constant companions.

According to Bahá ’ ís the disconsolate Ásíyih was helped by Bahá ’ u ’ lláh who assured his wife their child was in heaven.

According to The Will and Testament of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, they are to be nominated and appointed by the Guardian of the Cause of God and are to be under his direction and obey his command and a quote of Bahá ' u ' lláh's is also used as a prayer for them.

According to the official website of the Bahá ' ís of Pakistan, Sa ` íd Hindí was a native of Multan, in present day Pakistan.

According to Bahá ' í tradition, Mullá ' Alí met Mullá Husayn after the latter had discovered the Báb and realised that he had discovered something.

According to the 2005 Association of Religion Data Archives data there are close to some 1880000 Bahá ' ís.

According to Nabíl-i-A ` zam all three were named thusly by Bahá ' u ' lláh at the conference.

According to Maxwell's equations, an electric field ( u, v ) in two space dimensions that is independent of time satisfies

According to one estimate, the native population in and around the missions proper was approximately 80, 000 at the time of the confiscation ; others claim that the < u > statewide </ u > population had dwindled to approximately 100, 000 by the early 1840s, due in no small part to the natives ' exposure to European diseases they lacked immunity from, and from the Franciscan practice of cloistering women in the convento and controlling sexuality during the child-bearing age.

According to the pigeonhole principle, < u style =" text-decoration: overline "> p </ u >( n ) is zero when n > 365.

According to George Bird Grinnell, the accent is on the second syllable ; the " a " in the first syllable is pronounced like the " a " in " father "; and the " u " in the second syllable is pronounced long, like the vowel in " pool ".

According to town histories, as late as the 1920s, there was some dispute about how to spell the name, with the post office and one of its most prominent hotels using a " u " for many decades.

According to Capdeville he may also be found on the outer rim of the Piacenza Liver on case 14 in the compound form CULALP i. e. " of Culśans and of Alpan ( u )" on the authority of Pfiffig, but perhaps here it is the female goddess Culśu, the guardian of the door of the Underworld.

According to the Chinese classic Liang chih-kung-t ' u the name Huá was an endonym used by the Hephthalites themselves while 嚈噠 was an exonym derived from their ruling dynasty and applied to them by outsiders.

According to the whole number rule proposed by Francis Aston, the mass of an isotope is roughly, but not exactly, its mass number A = Z + N times an atomic mass unit ( u ), plus or minus binding energy discrepancy – atomic mass unit being the modern approximation for " mass of a proton, neutron, or hydrogen atom ".

According to Souag ( 2010 ), the vowel system consists of lax ə, ŭ, ə ̣̣ and tense a, i, u, ạ, ụ, while the consonant system is as follows:

According to the Chinese classic Liang chih-kung-t ' u, 滑 ( pinyin: hua ), was the name the Hephthalites used of themselves, and that is probably Chinese transfer of a similar word on sounding ,-War / Uar.

According to this view, names " Kven " and " Kainu ( u )" may share common roots, in early Umesaami dictionaries Kainolads and Kainahalja described Norwegian and Swedish men and women respectively ( Lexicon Lapponicum 1768 ).

According to Queets and Quinault legend, river was originally called K ' witzq < sup > u </ sup > or q < sup > u </ sup > itzq < sup > u </ sup >, pronounced " Kw-ā-tz ", meaning " out of the dirt of the skin ".

According to some biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites-the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; according to biblical scholars, Levite was originally just a job title, deriving from the Minaean word lawi ' u meaning priest, rather than having been the name of a tribe.

" According to him, “ Idea ,” “< u > Re </ u > presentation ,” and “< u > Pre </ u > sentation ” are all acceptable renderings of the word “ Vorstellung ”, but it is the notion of a performance or a theatrical presentation that is key in his interpretation.

According to Bahá ' u ' lláh God has promised that he will send a succession of messengers that will instruct humankind.

:" According to the explicit decree of Bahá ' u ' lláh one must not turn aside from the advice of a competent doctor.

According to Bahá ' u ' lláh, it was during his imprisonment in the Síyáh-Chál that he had several mystical experiences, and that he received a vision of a Maiden from God, through whom he received his mission as a Messenger of God and as the One whose coming the Báb had prophesied.

According to founder Justin Lee, " We're just trying to get people together who experience attraction to the same sex, however they have handled that, and who love Jesus and say, OK, you are welcome here, and then let's pray together and figure out where God wants us to take it.

According to Aristotle's Constitution of Orchomenus, when the Thespians ravaged Ascra, the villagers sought refuge at Orchomenus, where, following the advice of an oracle, they collected the ashes of Hesiod and set them in a place of honour in their agora, next to the tomb of Minyas, their eponymous founder.

According to founder Sunir Shah, it runs " a hacked-up version of UseModWiki ".

* According to Nepali scholar Rishikesh Shaha, the ancient chronicles report that a sage ( muni ) named Ne became the protector ( pāla ) of this land and the founder of its first ruling dynasty.

According to Allan Kardec, the founder of Spiritism, poltergeists are manifestations of disembodied spirits of low level, belonging to the sixth class of the third order.

According to Paul Kurtz, considered by some to be the founder of the American secular humanist movement, one of the differences between Marxist-Leninist atheists and humanists is the latter's commitment to " human freedom and democracy " while stating that the militant atheism of the Soviet Union consistently violated basic human rights.

The film was theatrically released on October 14, 2010 According to Legend Films founder Barry Sandrew, Night of the Living Dead is the first entirely live action 2-D film to be converted to 3-D.

According to Irving Kristol, self-described founder of American Neoconservatism, Thucydides wrote " the favorite neoconservative text on foreign affairs "; and Thucydides is a required text at the Naval War College, an American institution located in Rhode Island.

According to the contemporary Indian philosopher and tantric author, founder of Ananda Marga school of Tantra Yoga, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, tantra had its origin in India and South Asia.

* 1271 – September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, " the coast of Totnes " was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island.

* September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon, as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

According to the Manchu Veritable Records, the name Manju was originally given by the legendary dynastic founder Bukūri Yongšon to the country he established when he united the three warring clans of Odoli, at the location of the modern city of Dunhua in Jilin province.

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

According to Reudi Beglinger, mountain guide and founder of Selkirk Mountain Experience, ski-mountaineering options on the Tödi include what is " generally considered one of the most technically difficult lines in the Alps, almost a 10, 000-foot descent ".

According to the earlier chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100 – c. 1155 ), Ebraucus had fifty children by his twenty wives, and was the founder of " Kaerebrauc " ( York ), " Alclud " ( Dumbarton ), and the " Maidens ' Castle ".

" According to the Encyclopædia Britannica 1911, he was a founder of schools, and provided medical attendance for the poor of Rome, by appointing a physician for each of the fourteen districts of the city.

According to the vice-director of JINR, the Dubna team chose to name element 114 flerovium ( symbol Fl ), after the founder of the Russian institute, Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, the Soviet physicist Georgy Flyorov ( also spelled Flerov ).

According to tradition the founder of Salamis was Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to the foundation myth, the founder of Salamis is said to be Teucer, son of Telamon, who could not return home after the Trojan war because he had failed to avenge his brother Ajax.

According to a different tradition, a Cyparissus, possibly not the same figure, was the son of Orchomenus, the brother of Minyas, and the mythical founder of Kyparissos in Phocis, which later was called Anticyra.

According to Pausanias, he was the youngest son of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis and a founder of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

According to Adémar de Chabannes, just before his death in 932 or 933 Rollo ( founder and first ruler of the Viking principality of Normandy ) practised human sacrifices to appease the pagan gods, and at the same time made gifts to the churches in Normandy.

According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ; By yet another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.

According to the Scholiast on Euripides, Acrisius was the founder of the Delphic amphictyony.