The Importance of Commerce
Honest commerce and trade, conducted with integrity, is a sacred service that sustains civilization and brings peoples together.
The Bahá'í writings view honest trade and commerce as a sacred service — the arteries through which resources flow to meet human needs and through which peoples come into contact and understanding. Commercial engagement conducted with trustworthiness and fairness is both economically valuable and spiritually meritorious.
Commerce is as a heaven, whose sun is trustworthiness and whose moon is truthfulness.
The Bahá'í spiritualization of commerce connects to Max Weber's thesis on the relationship between religious ethics and economic practice.
Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh