The perceptions on online waqf among Muslims in Kuala Lumpur / Nur Raihan Ab Rashid

This study is about the people perceptions on online waqf among Muslims, generally termed as Islamic e-donations in Malaysia. Before this, there are only land waqf and cash waqf and this online waqf is still new in Malaysia. Online waqf is generally referred as Muslims' donation and charity activities in the form of cash that is performed via electronic means for example Internet banking facilities. The Malaysia Islamic banks are compete each other to facilitate their customers' transactions via an introduction of Internet banking services but the banks however are not yet seen to add more online waqf as one of the financial facilities in their existing Internet banking services. The issue is due to it is not so popular among public especially Muslim and they are less aware about the existence of online waqf. According to Kahf (1999) online waqf is still at infancy stage and the supports by all parties such as financial institutions are necessary to make it feasible at the national level. Moreover, according to Ndubisi and Sinti (2006) there were poor efforts done to examine an acceptance of online waqf among Malaysian due to it is relatively new. The survey is among Muslims in Kuala Lumpur. The data collection for this research were obtaining using questionnaire among 100 respondents. This research is based on quantitative research and uses the method of Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) that come out with multiple question using multiple regressions and Likert scale.