The abolition of monasticism is explicit: Bahá'u'lláh addresses monks and priests directly, telling them to leave their seclusion, occupy themselves with what profits them and others, and marry. Mendicancy is forbidden and giving to beggars is discouraged in favour of organised provision. Idleness is condemned. Against this stands the elevation of ordinary work: the statement that work performed in the spirit of service is worship makes the workshop and the office the site of religious life rather than a distraction from it. The consequence for the faith's institutional shape is total — there are no orders, no monasteries, no ashrams, no retreat houses in the monastic sense, no professional religious of any kind, and no career path within the faith. Members of the Universal House of Justice and staff at the World Centre are the nearest thing to full-time religious personnel and are administrators rather than clergy. Everything else the faith does is done by people in the evenings after work.