Factors of Interacting with the Quran in Religious Life Appreciation Process among UKM Students

The Quran is indeed has been proven to be used as a therapy to get peace in daily lives, and the Quran is a remedy or an antidote for treating various diseases either physical or spiritual. Miracles revealed to the Prophet Muhammad PBUH are the Muslim holy book that does not have any similarity at all with other scriptures. However, the condition that often occurs particularly among students and raising concerns of many parties when the students less interact with the Quran. Therefore, this study aims to answer the question about what is the extent of students’ involvement and the difference between male and female students of UKM themselves in terms of interacting with the Quran? This descriptive quantitative study was conducted using questionnaire form that was designed by the researcher. Analysis of this research applied descriptive method of frequencies and also t-test with the aid of SPSS program. The findings of this study clearly show that the faith interaction and practice subfactors resulted in higher mean scores, while the other six interaction subfactors with the Quran are at the mean scores that tended to be higher. Next, the t-test results clearly show that there are significant differences in terms of interaction with the Quran among male and female UKM students. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s3p60