Every choice a Bahá’í makes—as employee or employer,
producer or consumer, borrower or lender, benefactor or beneficiary—leaves a
trace, and the moral duty to lead a coherent life demands that one’s economic
decisions be in accordance with lofty ideals, that the purity of one’s aims be
matched by the purity of one’s actions to fulfil those aims. Naturally, the
friends habitually look to the teachings to set the standard to which to
aspire. But the community’s deepening engagement with society means that the
economic dimension of social existence must receive ever more concentrated
attention. Particularly in clusters where the community-building process is
beginning to embrace large numbers, the exhortations contained in the Bahá’í
Writings should increasingly inform economic relationships within families,
neighbourhoods, and peoples.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated
1 March 2017)
