Trends of Sponsored Students in Postgraduate Studies towards the Practice of Voluntary Charitable Works: A Field Work

Abstract

The study aimed at revealing the trends of scholarship students in the postgraduate studies at the Islamic University of Madinah towards the practice of voluntary charitable works and its fields. The analytical descriptive method was adopted and the questionnaire was used a tool for collecting data. The study reached the following results; the most active areas of charitable works in the samples of the study were "participation in raising awareness of pilgrims and visitors in the seasons" and the least practice "cooperation with institutions working in the field of civil defense." The level of degree of desire among members of the study sample towards the fields of volunteering charity work had been recorded  as high degree, the highest of which was the desire to "participate in inviting non-Muslims to the religion”. The desire to "provide assistance to institutions working in the field of civil defense." was found weak. Therefore, the study also recommended that there should be some efforts done in working to achieve the areas of voluntary works that students wish to practice in order to benefit from their abilities and talents, and to exploit the fields that students practice to obtain a high degree in the development of voluntary programs.