MOSQUE ECONOMY, IGNORED COMMUNITY ECONOMIC BASIS

Abstract

This article aims to explain the concept of economic development of society, primarily Islamic community which is based on the socio-economic potential of the Mosque community. Functionally, the mosque can be viewed from two perspectives, first; mosque as the infrastructure of worship, and second; mosque as a society. The first perspective has been deeply rooted in the awareness of Islamic societies including in Indonesia. Yet,  in the second perspective, the function of the mosque seemed to only shift some distance from the first perspective, its significance is limited to rituals only, whereas the functional meaning of the mosque is socially very wide. Included in this second perspective is the potential economic basis of society, namely the mosque-based economy. The mosque is a medium to internalize the values of submission, obedience, and self-surrender, which is actually a model of human resource development with integrity. The process is done through a system of congregation, which is socially said to be a community in which social networks between the jama’ah are built. When viewed from an economic perspective, the jama'ah network can be translated again in the form of economic networks, either through economic unions (Syirkah) or capital cooperation (Mudharabah). To popularize the economic potential of the mosque-based people up to the entire units of the mosque community is really possible to  enable the effectiveness of  economic potential of the people who have been unnoticed.