Filantropi Islam dan Aktivitas Sosial Berbasis Masjid di Masjid Al-Hidayah Purwosari Yogyakarta

Abstract

This study explained how Mosque as the community of Muslim are ableto finance social activities and conduct the program of communityempowerment through the practice of Islamic philanthropy. By taking acase in a village in Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta, at where getting aMosque that had been oriented toward religious and social activities ofthe community, namely the Mosque of Al-Hidayah Purwosari SinduadiVillage, Mlati District, which established since 1972 and has survived tothe present. This research aimed to see how the Mosque's involvement inphilanthropic activities led at the program of local communityempowerment. This research is important in doing because of themosque's ability to collect and manage the fund of philanthropic forsocial activities. The data of this study were obtained through step nystep doing interview, observation, documentation and religiousliterature relevant to this study. The result of this study indicated thatthe fund of philanthropic came from zakat, infaq, alms and endowmentsthat have been collected are distributed in the program of communityempowerment which covered four main fields namely da'wah,education, social and economy. Finally, this study concluded that Mosqueof al-Hidayah Purwosari was not only oriented toward worship, but alsoled to the programs of sustainable community empowerment throughthe practice of Islamic philanthropy.