Ijarah (lease contract) is one of the essential financing contracts offered by Islamic banking institutions to meet the demand of the clients. This study investigates the impact of Ijarah financing on Islamic bank performance in Malaysia for the period from 2004-2018 using Fixed and Random Effect Models. Ijarah financing (IJFA) which becomes the focus variable of this study with other six independent variables; operating efficiency (EXTA), bank size (LTA), total financing (TFTA), base rate (BR), consumer price index (CPI) and gross domestic product (GDP) were regressed against return on asset (ROA) and net profit margin (NPM). The results show that Ijarah financing has a positive and significant impact on NPM. The findings suggest that Islamic banks should increase their portfolio of Ijarah financing and this is also support the concentration strategy used by banks in improving Islamic bank performances. An increase in demand for Ijarah financing will increase Islamic banks performance and this reflects that Ijarah financing as an asset creation tool that banks prefer particularly for generating income.
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Abrar Nawas, Y. Z. Basri, Tatik Mariyanti, Zulhelmy Zulhelmy
The objective of this research is to analyze the effect of Amil's Islamic Characteristics on Quality of Financial Reporting and Good Governance as an Intervening Variable in Zakat Management Organizations (ZMO). The research used the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method with SmartPLS software to analyze data from 204 samples of commissioners and administrators of Zakat Management Organization. The results show that the character of trustworthiness, professionalism, and good governance had a positive and significant effect on the quality of Financial Reporting. In contrast, Islamic religiosity has no impact on the quality of financial reporting. The results also show that Islamic religiosity, trustworthiness, and professionalism had a positive and significant effect on good governance. Good governance played a role in mediating the influence of trustworthiness on the quality of Financial Reporting. The research findings provide managerial implications for ZMO and the government to utilize Islamic religiosity and character of trustworthiness as qualitative standards in Amil recruitment. Furthermore, it allows them to create and set Amil’s professional competency standards, including the fields of accounting and management, and provide Amil professional certification as well as establish Amil Professional Associations.
{"title":"THE EFFECT OF AMIL’S ISLAMIC CHARACTERISTICS ON THE QUALITY OF FINANCIAL REPORTING OF ZAKAT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS (ZMO): GOOD GOVERNANCE AS INTERVENING VARIABLE","authors":"Abrar Nawas, Y. Z. Basri, Tatik Mariyanti, Zulhelmy Zulhelmy","doi":"10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this research is to analyze the effect of Amil's Islamic Characteristics on Quality of Financial Reporting and Good Governance as an Intervening Variable in Zakat Management Organizations (ZMO). The research used the Structural Equation Modeling-Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS) method with SmartPLS software to analyze data from 204 samples of commissioners and administrators of Zakat Management Organization. The results show that the character of trustworthiness, professionalism, and good governance had a positive and significant effect on the quality of Financial Reporting. In contrast, Islamic religiosity has no impact on the quality of financial reporting. The results also show that Islamic religiosity, trustworthiness, and professionalism had a positive and significant effect on good governance. Good governance played a role in mediating the influence of trustworthiness on the quality of Financial Reporting. The research findings provide managerial implications for ZMO and the government to utilize Islamic religiosity and character of trustworthiness as qualitative standards in Amil recruitment. Furthermore, it allows them to create and set Amil’s professional competency standards, including the fields of accounting and management, and provide Amil professional certification as well as establish Amil Professional Associations.","PeriodicalId":33481,"journal":{"name":"IJIBE International Journal of Islamic Business Ethics","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86520586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noryati Ahmad, Roszahira Idayu Roslin, Nur Fatin Syahira Nazrin
In today’s business world, the traditional ways of doing business are rapidly being replaced with online transactions. More and more companies realise that they need to digitalize their operation processes to keep abreast with the local and foreign competitors. This practice is no exception to zakat institutions in Malaysia when they must seize this technology evolution to ease the zakat payers in fulfilling the obligation as Muslim via online payment system. This study aims to identify the determinants affecting the intention to use online zakat payment among Muslim in Shah Alam, Selangor. A structured questionnaire is distributed to 300 Muslim respondents Muslim using a convenience sampling technique. The results of the estimated multiple regression show that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and security and privacy critical drivers of intention to use online zakat payment while no significant relationship was found between trust and amount of information to use online zakat payment. Thus, the empirical findings of this study provide a point of reference to zakat institutions to leverage the usefulness and ease of use of the online collection zakat system to increase zakat collections. Additionally, the institution must also beef up its security and privacy of users to alleviate the acceptance of online system usage.
{"title":"ANALYSING THE DRIVERS AFFECTING THE INTENTION TO USE ONLINE ZAKAT PAYMENT AMONG MUSLIM IN SHAH ALAM, SELANGOR","authors":"Noryati Ahmad, Roszahira Idayu Roslin, Nur Fatin Syahira Nazrin","doi":"10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"In today’s business world, the traditional ways of doing business are rapidly being replaced with online transactions. More and more companies realise that they need to digitalize their operation processes to keep abreast with the local and foreign competitors. This practice is no exception to zakat institutions in Malaysia when they must seize this technology evolution to ease the zakat payers in fulfilling the obligation as Muslim via online payment system. This study aims to identify the determinants affecting the intention to use online zakat payment among Muslim in Shah Alam, Selangor. A structured questionnaire is distributed to 300 Muslim respondents Muslim using a convenience sampling technique. The results of the estimated multiple regression show that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and security and privacy critical drivers of intention to use online zakat payment while no significant relationship was found between trust and amount of information to use online zakat payment. Thus, the empirical findings of this study provide a point of reference to zakat institutions to leverage the usefulness and ease of use of the online collection zakat system to increase zakat collections. Additionally, the institution must also beef up its security and privacy of users to alleviate the acceptance of online system usage.","PeriodicalId":33481,"journal":{"name":"IJIBE International Journal of Islamic Business Ethics","volume":"363 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82995837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PKS di Malaysia mempunyai peranan penting kepada negara memandangkan sumbangan yang signifikan kepada KDNK pada tahun 2020 serta boleh dianggap sebagai tulang belakang kepada ekonomi negara. Daripada aspek pemilik atau pengurus, niat untuk berjaya dalam perniagaan PKS berperanan dalam menentukan arah tujuan PKS pada masa hadapan dan ini memberi impak kepada prestasi perniagaan PKS. Artikel ini cuba membincangkan faktor penentu kepada niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim di Malaysia. Selain itu, artikel ini cuba membincangkan peranan pemboleh ubah demografi terhadap niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan pengurus dan pemilik perusahaan kecil dan sederhana (PKS) Muslim. Bagi mencapai objektif kajian, TPB (Teori Kelakuan Terancang) diaplikasi dengan menganalisis kajian lepas dengan mencadangkan beberapa penentu kepada Kelakuan Tingkah laku (PBC) terhadap niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim. Seterusnya, kajian cuba membincangkan peranan LKI dan demografi dalam model penentu kepada niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim dengan menganalisis pemboleh ubah umur, pendidikan dan jantina dalam model kajian. Kajian ini diharap dapat menyumbang kepada teori berkaitan PKS untuk kajian akan datang.
{"title":"MODEL NIAT UNTUK BERJAYA DALAM KALANGAN PERUSAHAAN KECIL SEDERHANA MUSLIM: TINJAUAN BERDASARKAN KEPADA PENDEKATAN TEORI KELAKUAN TERANCANG (TPB)","authors":"M. A. Abdullah, Mohd Fauzi Abu Hussin","doi":"10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32890/ijib2021.6.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"PKS di Malaysia mempunyai peranan penting kepada negara memandangkan sumbangan yang signifikan kepada KDNK pada tahun 2020 serta boleh dianggap sebagai tulang belakang kepada ekonomi negara. Daripada aspek pemilik atau pengurus, niat untuk berjaya dalam perniagaan PKS berperanan dalam menentukan arah tujuan PKS pada masa hadapan dan ini memberi impak kepada prestasi perniagaan PKS. Artikel ini cuba membincangkan faktor penentu kepada niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim di Malaysia. Selain itu, artikel ini cuba membincangkan peranan pemboleh ubah demografi terhadap niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan pengurus dan pemilik perusahaan kecil dan sederhana (PKS) Muslim. Bagi mencapai objektif kajian, TPB (Teori Kelakuan Terancang) diaplikasi dengan menganalisis kajian lepas dengan mencadangkan beberapa penentu kepada Kelakuan Tingkah laku (PBC) terhadap niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim. Seterusnya, kajian cuba membincangkan peranan LKI dan demografi dalam model penentu kepada niat untuk berjaya dalam kalangan PKS Muslim dengan menganalisis pemboleh ubah umur, pendidikan dan jantina dalam model kajian. Kajian ini diharap dapat menyumbang kepada teori berkaitan PKS untuk kajian akan datang.","PeriodicalId":33481,"journal":{"name":"IJIBE International Journal of Islamic Business Ethics","volume":"7 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72470567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vol 6 No 1 (2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.32890/ijib2021.6.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32890/ijib2021.6.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33481,"journal":{"name":"IJIBE International Journal of Islamic Business Ethics","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80715403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-18DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340063
Javad T. Hashmi (جواد ت. هاشمي)
Islamic bioethics is an emerging phenomenon, with a recent proliferation of introductory literature seeking to describe the scope, parameters, and players of the field. However, this paper critically assesses the enterprise of Islamic bioethics as it stands today and argues that it lacks conceptual clarity. This leads to some very problematic assumptions made by Muslim and non-Muslim authors alike, which results in essentialist and reductionist discourses that privilege majoritarian, authoritarian, and conservative forms of religious and state authority at the expense of competing, dissenting, and reformist voices. I suggest using the principles of religious literacy (as endorsed by the American Academy of Religion) to bring much needed conceptual clarity to the field, to understand Islamic bioethics as a contested space of academic theology, and to promote a more inclusive discourse.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-27DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340059
Nora S. Eggen
In literary genres concerned with an ethics of character, scholars in the third through fifth/ninth through eleventh century wrote about social trust. In this article I examine the ethical thinking of four such scholars: Ibn Abī l-Dunyā (d. 281/894), al-Kharāʾiṭī (d. 327/939), al-Māwardī (d. 450/1058), and al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111). Locating conceptualisations of the ethical concerns related to trust and mistrust, trustworthiness, trusting and misplaced trust, in a semantic field including the vocabulary of amāna, tawakkul, thiqa and ḥusn al-ẓann, I identify and discuss in this article some of these concerns, and I analyse in what ways the scholars’ respective conceptualisations of issues related to trust are similar, and how they differ from each other. While some scholars explicitly conceptualise the ethical value of trust in the concept of amāna, the juxtaposed social and spiritual aspects of the concept of amāna is more implicit with other scholars.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340061
A. Padela, M. Ali, Asim Yusuf
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred policymakers and religious leaders to revisit age-old questions about the ethics of pandemic control, the just allocation of scarce resources, and preparing for death. We add to these conversations by discussing the use of mechanical ventilation for COVID-19 patients. Specifically, we address the following: For Muslim patients/families when is it permissible to forgo mechanical ventilation? For Muslim clinicians, what circumstances justify the withholding or withdrawing of mechanical ventilation from patients? And for policymakers, is there an Islamically-justifiable rubric for allocating mechanical ventilation to patients in times of scarcity? Our Islamic bioethical analyses connect biostatistical data and social contexts with ethico-legal constructs to bridge the epistemic theories of biomedicine and the Islamic legal tradition. They reveal that forgoing mechanical ventilation is permissible for Muslims, that there are several conditions that allow for Muslim clinicians to justify withholding and withdrawing mechanical ventilation, and also several policy rubrics for ventilator allocation that would be justifiable.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-15DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340058
G. Masri
This paper advances the claim that an investigation into the significance of Qurʾānic terms must consider the semantic etymology of the elements under investigation, especially terms that have developed into technical concepts in Islamic theology and philosophy like the ethical variety investigated in this volume. The present article will give some of the salient reason for this imperative and demonstrate the value of semantic etymology in understanding the anthropological dimensions of theological concepts. Semantic etymology, the practice of uncovering the ‘original’ imposition of a word-thing relation (aṣl al-waḍʿ) by deducing the meaning of a word from the meaning of other words sharing the same lexeme was more than a descriptive linguistic science in the Arab-Islamic tradition. In late antiquity the Greek and Latin science of etymologia, like the Arabic ishtiqāq al-maʿná (later ʿilm al-waḍʿ), was a fully-fledged instrument of conceptual analysis for the reader and a powerful tool of discursive authority for both author and reader. Semantic etymology offers an account, not only of the original word-thing relation, but also the essential nature of the object. In our current moment in the history of philosophy where ‘essences’ and ‘essential qualities’ have lost almost all currency, the article opens the door for a reconsideration of the worth of ‘etymologies’ as sound and useful anthropological and philosophical objects of analysis.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-13DOI: 10.1163/24685542-12340060
A. Shabana
This paper examines some of the important ethical questions that emerged in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic in light of the various Muslim responses to this global emergency. It focuses on the ethical discussions concerning the main measures that have been taken to fight the disease, which can be divided into two main categories: preventive and therapeutic. The paper also addresses measures taken to handle the dead bodies of deceased patients in a proper and dignified manner, according to relevant Islamic norms. The paper traces the background of these discussions in classical normative discourses, with a particular focus on the issue of the plague and also the issue of medical treatment. The paper argues that Islamic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic echo a longstanding two-pronged moral concern in the Islamic normative tradition with regard to pandemic situations; namely, to balance: the religious and metaphysical dimensions of the scriptural sources with the practical implications of real incidents of plagues and pandemics; and the interests of individuals against the collective interests of groups and societies.
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