The Effect of Self and Family Guarding on Enterprise Empowerment and Its Impact on the Enterprise Blessings of Productive Zakat Mustahiq on Amil Zakat Institutions in Pekanbaru City

Abstract

Poverty is a fundamental problem being faced by the entire nations of the world. There is not a single country free from the poverty issues both developed and developing countries particularly in Indonesia. Nowadays, one of the poverty alleviation efforts is empowerment program which is an efficient and effective empowerment of the poor. This research is an extended research from the previous study which led to the social empowerment specifically though productive zakat. This is very important to be done in the context of poverty alleviation itself so that those who are classified as poor with this empowerment effort will become empowered communities so that they, in turn, will become people who empower other poor communities. One program that applies such a model is the Productive Zakat program distributed to LAZ (Amil Zakat Institution) in Pekanbaru City, where the distribution to Mustahiq in the framework of Mustahiq togetherness, but its success is still questioned by various parties. The theory of community empowerment is the basis used in this study, which puts forward the concept of enterprise blessing which is based on the empowerment of productive recipients of zakat and is affected by self and family-guarding. The survey research method was conducted aimed at LAZ productive zakat Mustahiq in Pekanbaru City, collecting data with questionnaires and data were analyzed using path analysis techniques with WarpPls program. The research results showed that the enterprise blessing of Mustahiq productive zakat recipients and Amil Zakat institutions in Pekanbaru city are affected by the empowerment or success in managing the enterprises. Meanwhile, the success in managing an enterprise is affected by an adequate daily self and family-guarding

Keywords: self-guard, family-guard, enterprise empowerment, enterprise blessing.