The economic teachings are explicitly not egalitarian and explicitly not socialist: private property, profit and differences in wealth are all accepted, and 'Abdu'l-Bahá argued that absolute equality is impossible and would destroy the order of the world. What is targeted is the extremes at both ends. The proposed mechanisms include graduated income tax with exemption below a subsistence threshold, profit-sharing so that workers hold a share in the enterprise rather than only a wage, a village storehouse funded by a levy on production to support the disabled, orphans and the poor, and limits on inheritance. Voluntary charity is treated as necessary but insufficient — the writings are clear that structural remedy is required and that leaving the matter to generosity has failed. Huqúqu'lláh, the voluntary nineteen percent, sits alongside this as a personal rather than a systemic instrument. The overall shape is closer to regulated capitalism with a mandated floor than to any redistributionist programme.