Zakat Metaphor

Metaphors mandate in operational form can be derived into a metaphor of zakat, or the reality of an organization that is charitable with zakat. This implies that business oriented organizations are no longer profit oriented, or stockholders-oriented, but zakat oriented and environment and stakeholders-oriented. With zakat orientation, the company strives to achieve the optimum zakat payment rate. Thus, net profit (net profit) is no longer a measure of corporate performance, but vice versa zakat, environment, and stakeholders become criteria of company performance measures.
The wider understanding of the metaphor of zakat is that ideally the theory of sharia firms must be built on the "concept of zakat value". This means that sharia companies
First, there is a transformation from the achievement of net profit (maximum) to the attainment of zakat. This means that the achievement of profit is not the ultimate goal of the company. Second, because the goal is zakat, then all forms of company operations must be subject to the rules of the game applied in sharia. The three zakats contain a unified mix of humanity between egoistic, egoistic and altruistic, prioritizing the interests of others rather than personal interests. The egoistic character concludes that the company is still allowed to seek profit (but still within the framework of sharia), and then a portion of the net profit (and net worth) earned is allocated as zakat. While altruistik mempuyai meaning that the company also has a very high awareness of human welfare and the natural environment that is all reflected in the zakat itself. Fourthly, zakat contains emancipatory value that is the symbol of human liberation from economic oppression, social, and intellectual, and liberator of nature from human oppression and exploitation. Fifth, zakat is a bridge between the profane (worldly) and sacred (ukhrawi) human activities. Zakat as a bridge, giving awareness ontologism for the human self that all forms of profane activities are always closely related to the position of human in the presence of Allah SWT later in the