Feasibility study on the establishment of national Baitulmal

• Main Author: Che Yaacob, Ahmad
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTM Press 2017
• Subjects: BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80407/1/KamaruzamanYusoff2017_FeasibilityStudyontheEstablishment.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/80407/; https://dx.doi.org/10.11113/umran2017.4n3-1.253

A fesiability study for the creation of national entity of baitulmal was carried out and presented to a National Technical Committee at Jabatan Wakaf Zakat dan Haji of Prime Minister Department in 2010. The study was carried out as by visiting 15 government agencies, corporate institutions, the Muftis as well as selected Majlis Agama Islam negeri. During the visit the research team has presented a proposal for creation of national entity for baitulmal and conducted an interviews and survey to obtain their views. The result shown that all the respondents have agreed with the proposal to set up a National Investment of Baitulmal. This paper aims to elucidate the importance of creating this entity.