The Other Side of Zakat in Poverty Reduction: A Phenomenology Study
Abstract
This study aims to understand the phenomenon of zakat given to Mustahiq. The Mustahiq uses the zakat to increase income through business development so that it can reduce poverty. The research method used is qualitative using a phenomenology approach. This study interviewed three informants who received zakat. The results of this study reveal that zakat has a different spiritual value from taxes. When zakat is distibuted, it can increase the income of the grantees. BAZNAS management system must be carried out in a professional, transparent and accountable manner and aims at eradicating poverty and unemployment in Palu with a cultural approach based on faith. Besides, it helps the poor in community. One of the goals is to create some of muzakki and awareness of helping each other.
Keywords
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Abdul-Majeed Alaro, A. R., & Alalubosa, A. H. (2019). Potential of Sharī’ah compliant microfinance in alleviating poverty in Nigeria: A lesson from Bangladesh. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 12(1), 115–129. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-01-2017-0021
Abdullah, N., Derus, A. M., & Al-Malkawi, H. A. N. (2015). The effectiveness of zakat in alleviating poverty and inequalities a measurement using a newly developed technique. Humanomics, 31(3), 314–329. https://doi.org/10.1108/H-02-2014-0016
Ahmad, R. A. R., Othman, A. M. A., & Salleh, M. S. (2015). Assessing the Satisfaction Level of Zakat Recipients Towards Zakat Management. Procedia Economics and Finance, 31(15), 140–151. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2212-5671(15)01141-7
Alim, M. N. (2015). Utilization and Accounting of Zakat for Productive Purposes in Indonesia: A Review. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 211(September), 232–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.028
Ambrose, A. H. A. A., Aslam, M., & Hanafi, H. (2015). The Possible Role of Waqf in Ensuring a Sustainable Malaysian Federal Government Debt. Procedia Economics and Finance, 31(15), 333–345. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2212-5671(15)01205-8
Aufseeser, D. (2020). Towards a relational understanding of child poverty: Care and adverse inclusion among street-affiliated children in Peru. Geoforum, 114(March 2019), 10–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.05.016
Awaworyi Churchill, S., & Smyth, R. (2020). Ethnic diversity, energy poverty and the mediating role of trust: Evidence from household panel data for Australia1. Energy Economics, 86, 104663. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104663
Awaworyi Churchill, S., Smyth, R., & Farrell, L. (2020). Fuel poverty and subjective wellbeing. Energy Economics, 86, 104650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104650
Badan Pusat Statistik. (2020). Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Indonesia Triwulan IV-2019. Www.Bps.Go.Id, 17/02/Th. XXIV, 1–12. https://www.bps.go.id/pressrelease/2020/02/05/1755/ekonomi-indonesia-2019-tumbuh-5-02-persen.html
Baloch, M. A., Danish, Khan, S. U. D., & Ulucak, Z. Ş. (2020). Poverty and vulnerability of environmental degradation in Sub-Saharan African countries: what causes what? Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 54, 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2020.04.007
Brown, P., & James, D. (2020). Educational expansion, poverty reduction and social mobility: Reframing the debate. International Journal of Educational Research, 100(December 2019), 101537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2020.101537
Burde, D., Middleton, J. A., & Wahl, R. (2015). Islamic studies as early childhood education in countries affected by conflict: The role of mosque schools in remote Afghan villages. International Journal of Educational Development, 41, 70–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.10.005
Chamhuri, N. H., Hamdan, H., Ahmah, P., & Ismail, F. (2015). Conceptual Framework of Public Participation in Ensuring Quality of Life of the Urban Poor in Malaysia. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 168, 349–356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.240
Gamon, A. D., & Tagoranao, M. S. (2018). Zakat and poverty alleviation in a secular state: The case of muslim minorities in the Philippines. Studia Islamika, 25(1), 97–133. https://doi.org/10.15408/sdi.v25i1.5969
Hassan, M. K., & Aliyu, S. (2018). A contemporary survey of islamic banking literature. Journal of Financial Stability, 34, 12–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2017.11.006
Hassan, M. K., Aliyu, S., Huda, M., & Rashid, M. (2019). A survey on Islamic Finance and accounting standards. Borsa Istanbul Review, 19, S1–S13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2019.07.006
Heyneman, S. P., & Lee, B. (2016). International organizations and the future of education assistance. International Journal of Educational Development, 48, 9–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2015.11.009
Imam, P., & Kpodar, K. (2016). Islamic banking: Good for growth? Economic Modelling, 59, 387–401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2016.08.004
Jaime-Castillo, A. M., Fernández, J. J., Valiente, C., & Mayrl, D. (2016). Collective religiosity and the gender gap in attitudes towards economic redistribution in 86 countries, 1990-2008. Social Science Research, 57, 17–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.01.009
Jamal, A., Yaccob, A., Bartikowski, B., & Slater, S. (2019). Motivations to donate: Exploring the role of religiousness in charitable donations. Journal of Business Research, 103(February), 319–327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.01.064
Jin, G., Guo, B., & Deng, X. (2020). Is there a decoupling relationship between CO2 emission reduction and poverty alleviation in China? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 151(December 2019), 119856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119856
Kamla, R., & Alsoufi, R. (2015). Critical Muslim Intellectuals’ discourse and the issue of “Interest” (ribā): Implications for Islamic accounting and banking. Accounting Forum, 39(2), 140–154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accfor.2015.02.002
Kamla, R., & Haque, F. (2019). Islamic accounting, neo-imperialism and identity staging: The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 63, 102000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2017.06.001
Khalid, A., Nyborg, I., & Khattak, B. N. (2015). Whose property whose authority? Gendering the legal and customary practices in ownership and access to land: A case of Swat, Pakistan. Journal of Rural Studies, 41, 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.07.004
Kuran, T. (2019). Zakat: Islam’s missed opportunity to limit predatory taxation. Public Choice, April. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00663-x
Lubis, A. R., Fachrizal, F., & Lubis, M. (2017). The Effect of Social Media to Cultural Homecoming Tradition of Computer Students in Medan. Procedia Computer Science, 124, 423–428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.12.173
Luo, C., Li, S., & Sicular, T. (2020). The long-term evolution of national income inequality and rural poverty in China. China Economic Review, 62(September 2019), 101465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101465
Mahat, M. A., Jaaffar, M. Y., & Rasool, M. S. A. (2015). Potential of Micro-Waqf as an Inclusive Strategy for Development of a Nation. Procedia Economics and Finance, 31(15), 294–302. https://doi.org/10.1016/s2212-5671(15)01193-4
Marzano, A., Viza, E., & Cano, M. (2020). DigiCAP: Towards digitalization for empowerment and capacity building of handcraft developments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Procedia CIRP, 88, 179–184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2020.05.032
Mercier, M., Ngenzebuke, R. L., & Verwimp, P. (2020). Violence exposure and poverty: Evidence from the Burundi civil war. Journal of Comparative Economics, October 2018, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2020.04.005
Michalopoulos, S., Naghavi, A., & Prarolo, G. (2016). Islam, inequality and pre-industrial comparative development. Journal of Development Economics, 120, 86–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2016.01.002
Morris, M. H., Santos, S. C., & Neumeyer, X. (2020). Entrepreneurship as a solution to poverty in developed economies. Business Horizons, 63(3), 377–390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2020.01.010
Muhammad, S. A., & Saad, R. A.-J. (2016). Moderating Effect of Attitude toward Zakat Payment on the Relationship between Moral Reasoning and Intention to Pay Zakat. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 219, 520–527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.05.029
Nusrate Aziz, M., & Mohamad, O. Bin. (2016). Islamic social business to alleviate poverty and social inequality. International Journal of Social Economics, 43(6), 573–592. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-06-2014-0129
Osman, M. M., Bachok, S., Muslim, S. A., & Bakri, N. I. M. (2015). Unemployment Issues and Problems in Kinta, Manjung and Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 168, 389–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.10.245
Ridwan, M., Andriyanto, I., & Suharso, P. (2019). The BAZNAS Strategy in Coastal Region Economic Empowerment. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 246(1). https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/246/1/012073
Ridwan, Muhtadi, Asnawi, N., & Sutikno, S. (2019). Zakat collection and distribution system and its impact on the economy of Indonesia. Uncertain Supply Chain Management, 7, 589–598. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.uscm.2019.6.001
Sánchez-Guevara Sánchez, C., Sanz Fernández, A., Núñez Peiró, M., & Gómez Muñoz, G. (2020). Energy poverty in Madrid: Data exploitation at the city and district level. Energy Policy, 144(March 2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111653
Skoufias, E., Diamond, A., Vinha, K., Gill, M., & Dellepiane, M. R. (2020). Estimating poverty rates in subnational populations of interest: An assessment of the Simple Poverty Scorecard. World Development, 129, 104887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104887
Vera-Toscano, E., Shucksmith, M., & Brown, D. L. (2020). Poverty dynamics in Rural Britain 1991–2008: Did Labour’s social policy reforms make a difference? Journal of Rural Studies, 75(August 2019), 216–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.02.003
Xu, J., Song, J., Li, B., Liu, D., Wei, D., & Cao, X. (2020). Do settlements isolation and land use changes affect poverty? Evidence from a mountainous province of China. Journal of Rural Studies, 76(135), 163–172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.04.018
Yang, Y., de Sherbinin, A., & Liu, Y. (2020). China’s poverty alleviation resettlement: Progress, problems and solutions. Habitat International, 98(March 2019), 102135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102135
Yu, D., Caughy, M. O. B., Smith, E. P., Oshri, A., & Owen, M. T. (2020). Severe poverty and growth in behavioral self-regulation: The mediating role of parenting. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 68(July 2019), 101135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101135
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/iqtishadia.v13i1.5993
Copyright (c) 2020 IQTISHADIA
Iqtishadia Journal Indexed by :
Iqtishadia : Jurnal Kajian Ekonomi dan Bisnis Islam is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.