Zakat expenditure patterns and its relationships with the improvement of prosperity and environment

Abstract

Abstract Poverty always becomes a social problem and there is still no effective pattern to overcome this. Therefore, this research goal was how to utilize zakat as a huge social-economic potential in the Islamic Economics perspective, and to become a solution for increasing society prosperity through a productive distribution pattern. This research aimed to: explored the potential of zakat in society, Strengthening the management of zakat institutions, such as BAZNAS (managed by the government) and LAZ (managed by the community), and to make the distribution mechanism of Zakat to mustahiq (people who deserve to receive zakat) became more productive, therefore, it could make a real impact on mustahiq’s prosperity. The method used in this research was quantitative. The data analyzed with an intuitive method (kasyf) to examine the essence of zakat implementation orders. This was three years long term research.Thus, it can be concluded with the improving of zakat expenditure pattern, it will improve the quality of the environment both individually and collectively. Which in turn it will also have an impact on the social environment.

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