Firmness of the Islamic Foundation: For Dissidents of Zakat

Abstract

Zakat is an obligation that must be fulfilled by every Muslim who can afford it. Employees in an Islamic foundation must pay zakat to be good model for all people in performing zakat. However, there are cases of Islamic Foundation employees who are not willing to report all their income as the basis to calculate its zakat. This problem insists the writer to study how the Islamic foundations in Jepara manage zakat among their employees. This study uses descriptive qualitative research, to describe a strict set of universal norms and procedures, flexibility and consideration for local conversational norms. Document study and interview are used as instrument to collect the data. The result explained that the Islamic foundation should have an institution what so called UPZ to manage zakat of the employees. The board of the Islamic foundations also carried some steps of action to manage the disobeyed staff to pay their zakat by giving directive and educational punishment to make them conscious to perform their religious obligation.