Understanding and Classifying the Factors Affecting the Amount of People Partnership in Zakat Payment

Considering the importance of the Zakat in Islam and emphasis on Zakat payment in Quran and divine tradition, in this paper the most important factors affecting the people partnership in Zakat payment are analyzed. In the first stage, the most important factors are gathered using Delphi approach in four rounds. These are: humanism, the religiosity, self-satisfaction, welfare and organization. Then, these factors and their indices have been tested in the Hamedan province between the Zakat payers. In this stage, the effectiveness of each factor has been tested using TTEST. Humanism, the religiosity and organization factors are those that have been considered effective and the self-satisfaction and welfare have not been considered as effective ones. After that, the intensity of the factors with each other has been tested using the Pierson correlation coefficient. Finally, using the Fridman test, the importance of any of the factors has been analyzed.