Paying tithes via kiosks

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2009/02/21

Paying tithes via kiosks


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Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin (left) watching his son Tengku Mohd Muaaz trying out the kiosk at the Kampung Baru Mosque yesterday.


KUALA LUMPUR: Muslims can look forward to paying their tithes electronically using the "Maju Masjid (Mosque Development) eZakat/eDerma kiosks, which will be placed in mosques across the country.

The first kiosk can be found at the Kampung Baru mosque, which was launched by Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin yesterday.

Also present was Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Zahid said the first eZakat/eDerma kiosk was provided by Maybank and would be managed by Majumaz Aktif Sdn Bhd.

He believed that the modern method to pay tithes or even to make donations would turn mosques into a key economic generator for Muslims here.

Majumaz Aktif chief executive officer Datuk Subirin Sahan said more kiosks would be set up in mosques nationwide including the National Mosque, Federal Territory Mosque, Putra Mosque and the Putrajaya Mosque.

"In the near future, the people can also buy wakaf shares and make deposits into their Tabung Haji accounts using the kiosk," he said, adding that the technology could be introduced in other Islamic countries.