ABSTRACT

The poverty rate in Indonesia is still quite high despite a downward trend. Various solutions have been made, including the presence of Islamic microfinance institutions to provide financing. However, this still leaves the problem, that the lower layers of society (the poorest of the poor) are also still excluded where there are still many members of the community who have not been able to obtain riba-free financial services. This article proposes the idea of empowering the poorest of the poor model using mosque-based shadaqah funds. The integration of da'wah through mosques and economic empowerment will increase the resilience of the community especially the poorest of the poor against the onslaught of apostasy efforts. Improving the quality of faith will increase the fighting spirit to improve economic and religious life. The involvement of religious leaders and the community around the mosque and rich people towards the fate of the poor is expected to help them to organize their lives at a better level. This empowerment model is based on the local community around the mosque so that the mosque is not only a center of worship but will also function as a center for community economic empowerment.

 

Keywords: Shadaqah Fund, community empowerment, the mosque