Bahá'u'lláh abolished monasticism and mendicancy in the same movement and made work a religious obligation, stating that work performed in the spirit of service is accounted as worship. The framing is not consolatory — it is not that work can be sanctified by attitude, but that this is the higher station. Idleness is condemned, begging is forbidden, and those who withdraw from the world are told to enter it and occupy themselves with what benefits others. There is accordingly no Bahá'í monastery, no religious order, no hermitage, no ascetic path and no professional religious class at all, which is consistent with the abolition of clergy. The practical consequence is that a Bahá'í's religious life is conducted entirely inside an ordinary working life, and the faith's enormous emphasis on community-building activity — study circles, children's classes, devotional meetings — is undertaken by people with jobs, in evenings and at weekends, which is the only labour force it has.