Ownership In The Qur'an (A Thematic Study Of Qur'anic Verses)

Qur'an as the source of guidance assists human beings to develop their human resources in order to get welfare. One of way to get the welfare is with property. The property is one of important elements for humanity, because with this property, human being can fulfill their needs and can worship to the God well. The spirit of Islamic teaching is making the rich and develops society. Ironically, there are still many problems related to backwardness in economy, poverty, jobless, and enormous employee. This phenomenon is caused by two factors, namely internal and external. Internal factor comes from man self who does not actualize his potential as hard as possible to change the condition. Besides, Muslim people are misunderstanding for some terms, such as qana'ah, zuhud, wara', patience (sabar), resignation (tawakkal), taqdir / qadha, and else that emerged negative practice in economy growth of Islam. These terms in daily practice is often used as the basis of life of Muslims. Those teachings are understood narrowly, so that the impact is a paradigm which tends to downplay worldly achievement. It should be reformed or even need to have a radical and fundamental effort (revolution) to understand Islam and practice it as well. Meanwhile, external factors come beyond self, for example the coming of economic globalization, corruption, collusion, and nepotism that caused inequity distribution of wealth/ property. Hence, the understanding on ownership is very important, especially in the development of Muslim. Therefore, this paper focuses on ownership that is supported by the verses of Qur'an. To make this research systematic, the researcher uses the method of thematic tafsir. As a thematic study, first, it elaborates ownership as the main theme through its definition, theory and any other discussions in relation to it. It aims to catch comprehensive overview of ownership. Second, it tries to explore some terms such as malaka, istakhlafa, and waratsa and also explore some terms that have tight correlation with ownership, and some verses of Qur'an supporting ownership. Dealing with the contribution of this research to Qur'anic studies, it analyzes the point of view in Qur'an on ownership.