ZAKAH PERSPECTIVES AS A SYMBOL OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL PIETY: DEVELOPING A REVIEW FROM THE MEADIAN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
| Main Authors: | FIDIANA, FIDIANA, TRIYUWONO, IWAN, RIDUWAN, AKHMAD |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed |
| Terbitan: |
, 2012
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| Online Access: |
http://repository.stiesia.ac.id/782/ |
Daftar Isi:
- In the Islamic government, almsgiving (zakah) and Baitul Maal is a fiscal economic center. Zakah mechanism as a source of state revenue has been applied in the Islamic kingdom of Samudera Pasai and the kingdom of Demak. This practice was liquidated simultaneously with the arrival of colonialism era and replaced with the tax system. Since then, the mechanism of collection of zakah in Indonesia was not managed by the government, but left to the community. It means that Zakah is only a symbol of religious charity. Zakah as a religious symbol would not be meaningful if it is not given meaning. The process of meaning of a symbol is a mental process that involves consciousness (mind) and mediated by language and meaning is developed through interaction among individuals in society. This aims of this study is to explore the meaning of zakah in by developing Mead's symbolic interactionism perspective based on mind, self, and society. In this paper I suggest to use spiritual consciousness that is faith (iman/tawhid) and devoutness (taqwa) because humans are social beings as well as spiritual beings. Besides having the mind, self is also comes with the divine consciousness. Self with the divine consciousness, means believing (iman/tawhid) in the transcendent reality (God). The belief in God will motivate self to simultaneously comply with and be subject to a God-including in fulfilling the obligation of zakah. Self in faith and devoutness that interact with the community will be instrumental in forming (constructing) and cementing the meaning of zakah as a symbol of individual piety (obedience to God) and the symbol of social piety (wealth distribution).