Acknowledgement

In performing our assignment, we had to take the help and guideline of some respected
persons, who deserve our greatest gratitude. The completion of this assignment gives us much
pleasure. We would like to show our gratitude to our lecturer which is Sir Anuar Bin Muhammad
who introduced us to the Methodology of work and giving us a good guideline for this project
throughout numerous consultations.

We would also like to show our deepest gratitude to all person who being our respondent and
assisting us in answering our questionnaire and give a comment that greatly improved our
questionnaire. Many people, especially our classmates and team members itself, have made
valuable comment suggestions on this project which gave us an inspiration to improve our
project. We thank all the people for their help directly and indirectly to complete our assignment.

Result and Discussion

Profile of respondent

This study was conducted to identify people awareness about zakat on employment income, the
computation or calculation of zakat based on employment income, problems associated with
zakat and zakat payment to the zakat institution. There are 90 people were randomly selected
to participate in the survey. A total of 40 completed survey questionnaire were collected,
representing 7 geographical distinct state which is most of the respondent are from
Selangor(60%). The remaining respondent are from Perlis, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Perak, Kuala
Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, and Melaka. Our sampling technique captured a fairly even
representation of gender, with 60% of responding reporting female and 40% reporting male.
Only adult over the age of 25 were selected to completed the survey. This technique resulted in
a broad age representation which is 26.6% respondent range in age from 25-29, 37.8%
respondent range in age from 30-34 and 35.6% respondent range in age 35 and above. 77.8%
of respondent work with government sector, 15.6% of respondent work with private sector, and
6.6% work with other sector. Most of our respondent’s salary range from RM1000 – RM3999.
Discussion on Zakat Payment

There are several questions related to zakat payment which are:

C1: Do you know, you can pay zakat by installment?

C2: Do you know, you should pay zakat at the state where you work?

C3: Do you know where should you pay zakat?

C4: If you have any outstanding bills, do you know you can pay that amount for the following
year?

C5: Other than pay zakat at counter, do you know there is other way to pay zakat such as online
payment, postal order and deduction from salary?

The Diagram below show the people awareness about the matters related to zakat payment

Zakat Payment
40

35 38

30
30
25 28
26
24
20

15
16
14
10 12
10
5
2
0
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
Yes No
When asked either they know zakat can be paid by installment , the majority of the
respondent(64.4%) did not know that zakat can be paid by installment while the remaining
35.6% of respondent know about this matter. This phenomenon indicate that, most of muslim’s
society did not exposed by zakat institution about how zakat can be paid. Based on the diagram
above, the result for second question show that most of the respondent (68.9%) aware that
zakat should be paid at the state they work while the remaining of the respondent(31.1%) did
not aware about this matter. According to syariah, zakat need to be paid at the state where
muslim work, not at the state where muslim live. When the question asked about the placed that
they should pay zakat, majority of the respondent(95.6%) know where zakat can be paid. The
chart shows that only (4.4%) respondent did not know where they can pay zakat. This result
show that, zakat institution have successful play their rule in ensuring all zakat payer aware
about where zakat can be paid. Beside that, based on the diagram above, most of the
respondent(60%) did not aware that if they have any outstanding bills, they can pay that
amount for the following year. The result for the fourth question shows that, there are only
minority of the respondent(40%) aware that they can pay amount of outstanding bill(zakat) for
the following year. This situation occurred because it might be most of the zakat payer did not
experience about this matter. May be majority of the zakat payer have paid zakat in full amount
without have any outstanding balance. When asked about there are other way respondent can
pay zakat instead of pay zakat at counter, majority of the respondent (75.6%) know that there
are another way that zakat can be pay such as online payment, postal order and deduction from
salary.
The pie charts below show the level of awareness people in average about the matters related
to zakat payment.

Zakat Payment

37%
Yes No

63%

In conclusion, based on the pie chart above, the majority of muslim’s society aware and alert
about the matter related to zakat payment. The percentage of respondent who aware about the
matter related to zakat payment is 63.14% which higher than the respondent who did not aware
about this matter (36.86%)