The Effectiveness of the Berkah Mandiri Program on the Economic Empowerment of Mustahik

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This article discusses Small Business actors in running a business, obstacles in developing a business and the form of productive zakat distribution towards empowering mistahiq. The main problem in this study is how to distribute independent blessings in the Ajatappareng area. The research method is descriptive qualitative. Phenomenological approach. This type of research is field research. The data sources used are primary data in the form of direct interviews with the community receiving assistance for independent blessing products and secondary data in the form of books, journals, and articles related to the topic discussed. Data analysis techniques are data collection, data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The data validity testing techniques used are credibility tests and defendability tests. The results of the study indicate that Productive zakat in the form of distributing productive zakat carried out by WIZ is realized in the form of capital and carts according to the needs of mustahiq. For the distribution of productive zakat funds, the mustahiq (deserving recipients) remains guided by the eight categories of asnaf (needs), namely the poor, the needy, the amil (managers), the converts, the riqab (people who are destitute), the gharim (people who are destitute), the fi sabililah (people who are deserving of Allah), and the 10 points determined by Wahdah Inspirasi Zakat (Zakat Inspiration). Direct distribution of productive zakat through WIZ is related to the independent blessing product program.