Poverty is considered as social problem because it will affect the society as a whole. It is also an ideological problem as it affects the performance of one’s socio-religious obligation towards the community and Islam. As we already know, the main objective of zakat is to alleviate poverty among the society. Thus, holistic approach must be taken in order to achieve this means since poverty cannot be alleviated through income redistribution only.
In Malaysia, zakat distribution method is still using the periodical form of direct payment whereby the recipients are given zakat money monthly or annually. However, there are many cases show that direct payments reducing the incentive of recipients to work and finally end up being dependent on zakat funds only.
However, direct payment of zakat is still acceptable especially for nonproductive asnafs such as the disabled people and elderly. Plus, it is recommended to distribute zakat in the form of capital finance to the recipients particularly for poor and needy in order to encourage them to get involve in business activities so that they will able to sustain their live. Besides that, zakat funds are also used to support the recipients’ families by sponsoring their children school and university fees. These educational and training programmes are very useful to prevent the asnaf’s children from continue living in poverty in the future due to the lack of knowledge.
In addition, there are also highlighted issues involving zakat institutions in Malaysia such as the issues of inefficiency of zakat distribution as well as inefficient in collecting zakat which will affect the objective of alleviating poverty. In terms of distribution of zakat, there were bureaucracy problems in zakat institut...
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...the poor feelings of hatred and animosity that they might have for the rich. Thus, to achieve this goal, zakat fund must be fully utilized to develop the economy of the Muslims so that the wealth of zakat could be regarded as productive assets.
Zakat fund also act as an additional capital subsidized by the society to support the unemployment, orphans, widows, physically disadvantaged people, the sick and others. Zakat fund is not only helping recipients with providing basic necessities and improve the standard of living for the poor and downtrodden; but it also serves to help the recipients in the long term by making the recipients become productive members of the society. Thus, the allocation of zakat proportion must not only sufficient to cater the basic needs but it must also be enough to help the recipients expand their zakat fund in order to sustain their life.
Through the past four years studying for Social Policy and Administration, I paid more attention to the current political system, especially about social welfare sectors. I realized that the lack of supervision system is the major contributor evoking poor quality welfare services in third sectors. Lump Sum Grant Subvention System (LSGSS) is the present subvention system for NGOs. To describe euphemistically as it means, LSGSS provides flexibility to NGOs in order to make use of the subsidy on the welfare services. Nevertheless, the truth is, the lack of transparency of using funding provokes to the familiar issues as exploitation of front line social
Although poverty has minimized, it is still significant poverty which is characterized by a numerous amount of things. There are two types of poverty case and insular. “Case poverty is the farm family with the junk-filled yard and the dirty children playing in the bare dirt” (Galbraith 236)Case poverty is not irretraceable and usually caused if someone in the household experiences “ mental deficiency, bad health, inability to adapt to the discipline of industrial life, uncontrollable procreation, alcohol, some educational handicap unrelated to community shortcomings” (Galbraith 236).Case poverty is often blamed on the people for their shortcomings but on some levels can be to pinpoint one person's shortcomings that caused this poverty. Most modern poverty is insular and is caused by things people in this community cannot control. “The most important characteristic of insular poverty is forces, common to all members of the community, that restrain or prevent participation in economic life and increase rates of return.
Muslims are expected to give alms to the Muslim community that amount to 2.5% of one’s income. The principle of knowing that all things belong to God is essential to purification and growth. Zakāt is obligatory for all Muslims who are able to do so. Currently,Muslims are living under secular governments and must pay taxes to them. So the zakat is in addition to their secular taxes. Because there is no central Islamic state, each person must choose where to give his money.
Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.
Greed can lead to many different situations, experiencing times of hardship, consequences, but a major consequence is poverty which is not realized through
Does the government only consume this bulk of $6000 and $200 bonus? Is it an efficient and fast process to give $6000 to people’s hand? Up to now, the “Scheme $6,000” has used almost 8 months to plan and work the delivery process. Compare to the delivering money process of Macau in recent years; it is a non-efficient and time-consuming way to plan and deliver. In this essay, we would focus on 4 aspects: time used, cost consumed, human resources and the long-term benefit.
Islam encourages Muslims to help those in need and be considerate towards others. This attitude is expressed by making charity an obligation upon Muslims. However there are different types of charity and it is not all of them that are compulsory. Zakah is the act of charity that is an obligation but is commonly referred to as a tax. This is inaccurate as it is one of the five pillars of Islam therefore is a divine duty. It is a right that the poor have over the rich. Consequently, people who refuse to pay their share of Zakah are ones who deprive the poor of the God-given right. Viewing it as tax lessens the importance of Zakah and its importance is quite apparent in various verses of the Quran and hadith. It has been revealed in the Quran that: ‘In their wealth there is a known share for the beggars and the destitute’
Zakah also reminds able-earning Muslims that the blessings they receive come from Allah and that they need to be distributed amongst all Muslims so that none are left in the poverty lurch.
Also in 1963, the Pilgrims Saing Corporation of Malaysia began to incorporate basic islamic banking concepts.
Various initiatives undertaken by Ministry of Education in effort to help students with economic disadvantaged, SEDs get education opportunity that equals to other students. Realizing that education is major nation's asset that generates success of the nation to compete with other developed country, several initiatives executed by Ministry of Education. In year 2009, a sum of RM 3.406 billion allotted to Ministry of Education to various types of assistance to students from less well-off group and low income. Among initiatives that provided by Ministry of Education are Supplementary Feed Plan or Rancangan Makanan Tambahan, (RMT), Text Book Loan Scheme or Skim Pinjaman Buku Teks, (SPBT) and Poor Student Group Trust Fund or Kumpulan Wang Amanah Pelajar Miskin, (KWAPM).
Allah mentions the vital importance of Zakat in multiple verses of the Quran, for example in Surah Al-A’raf Allah says " My punishment - I afflict with it whom I will, but My mercy encompasses all things". So I will decree it [especially] for those who fear Me and give zakah and those who believe in Our verses” (Quran 7:156). More importantly, it is very important that Zakat must be performed during or after the Ramadan as it is another way to make up the missed days of fasting. It is important that the intention of Zakat must be pure and honest. Moreover, it is obligatory that a minimum of 2.5% of their income for must be given to the needy in order for zakat to become compulsory. However, those who are not financially stable are not required
Patmawati (2008) argues that zakat distribution has the ability to develop the economic well-being of Muslim society based on the evidences by a number of empirical studies of zakat. A more specific study on the impact of zakat on distribution of income for the two categories of the asnafs, the poor and the needy people in Malaysia was carried out by Patmawati (2006) whereby she finds that zakat has reduced the income inequality and poverty.
The purpose of money is to convert production into consumption. A generous person pursues the idea of spending everything he makes from his own consumption. A generous person could be out of money, but he is not because he has the virtue of liberality. He knows how much to spend. A poor person can be generous and he will try to give away the right amount at the right time from what he has.
Social issues are problems in the society today that are described as wrong, widespread and changeable. A category of conditions that people believe need to be changed. Poverty is a serious social issue in the society today. According to Peilin (2012), poverty brings hardships to families and individuals as well as political thereby negatively affecting the social stability and social development and posing a severe threat to human security (p. 243). This paper focuses on poverty as a social issue in today’s society. First, it gives a succinct introduction of the social issue, and then describes how it fits into the field of sociology. It also evaluates the sociological theories and terminology that relate to the social issue. The section that follows evaluates what is known and unknown about the particular social issue. This is followed by a discussion regarding the value of sociological research into the issue determining the available or possible practical implications of the sociological inquiry. The information presented here is strongly supported by the concepts and theories derived from reliable sources.
To begin, there are two main types of poverty in the world, non-income and income poverty (ZPRP). Non Income Poverty is when people may have money, but only a little to keep themselves alive (ZPRP). They don’t have the money to afford physical services and social events such as schooling, work, medicines, health care, sanitation, and transportation (ZPRP). The best way to condense the cause of non-income poverty is to make sure that individuals have access to inexpensive and exceptional social services, that they feel safe when in their homes and that they have family and friends to protect them when needed (ZPRP). Income poverty is when people are living on less than 1 dollar a day, which is far from the normal amount a family can survive on (ZPRP). They tend to not have fresh food and water, medicine, live in poor houses, sometimes no houses, and have dirty and ragged clothes (ZPRP). Just as there are many types of poverty, there are many effects to it to.