dc.description.abstract | In essence, the economic empowerment is a dynamic process, so that changes that occur in such
empowerment requires the dynamics of the community in increasing income to meet daily needs. It is
irrelevant if the intended economic empowerment, empowerment of the behavior associated with the
consumption of mustahik zakat. Zakat is one of the economic instruments in the Islamic economic system
that encourages economic growth and equitable distribution of income has a positive impact on the
improvement of people's purchasing power and therefore encourage the empowerment of zakat in
mustahik behavior consume. The key to understanding consumer behavior in Islamic economics lies not
with just knowing things that are forbidden, but also to realize the dynamic concept of a moderate stance
in consumer behavior guided by the interests of others for the benefit of mankind. This study aims to
present a general overview of the effects on consumption behavior mustahik charity. Consumption
behavior is rather the ability to meet five basic needs in theory maqosidusy sharia consists of ad-din
(religion), an-nafs (spiritual), al-aql (intelligence), an-nasl (offspring), and al-mal (treasure). The survey
method used as the basis of this research, and this research study showed that the instrument can
increase revenue mustahik charity, so that their consumption levels increase, but the increase in the
amount of consumption is smaller than the increase in the amount of income. So desires average
consumption (APC) and the desire marginal consumption (MPC) decreased with an increase in revenue,
but the decline APC rated higher than the MPC at every income level. | en_US |