THE CONTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTIVE ZAKAT IN THE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC UMMAH

Abstract

One of the economic empowerments of the people is to increase production activities to produce goods and services from existing resources, to meet these resources, a new program was formed in Zakat, namely productive zakat. The purpose of this writing is to see how and what is the contribution of productive zakat to the economic development of the Ummah which is intended to create a prosperous and sustainable society so that mustahik can meet its needs. The method used is Normative with the approach of books and other scientific papers. The birth of productive zakat is very helpful for the community to develop their business and even open new businesses. Productive zakat has been recognized and true in fact that this zakat directly contributes to the economic empowerment of the people. An example of productive zakat contribution is to provide funds to mustahik to open a business and will develop it, with this the mustahik economy will be better and can meet daily needs in the long term (sustainable).