KECENDERUNGAN MASYARAKAT UNTUK BERWAKAF TUNAI (STUDI KASUS MAHASISWA FAKULTAS SYARI’AH IAIN SUMATERA UTARA)

Indonesia has experienced an endless economic crisis that brings about social poverty. To overcome this problem, Islam offer institution of waqf that has economics vision, namely Cash Waqf. It is predicted to be prospective and potential enough to collect some fund from society that could be utilized to improve social condition and also to make the existing economic wheels become bigger. Cash waqf has a flexible method to create maslahat (public interest). This is due to the fact that cash waqf provides an opportunity for Muslims to practice in such a way that shall no longer be limited to the wealthy persons, but with small amount of money, middle class Moslem can do waqf for the sake of public interest