Awareness on content of Aqad in Islamic financial contracts among secondary school teachers in Padang Terap, Kedah

This research focuses on the awareness on content of aqad in Islamic financial contracts among secondary school teachers. It is intended to measure the factors that might affect the teachers‟ awareness which include knowledge and religious obligation towards content of aqad in Islamic financial contracts. This study examines the relationships between the awareness with all the mentioned factors earlier. A purposed theoretical framework has been developed in this study in order to illustrate the whole research area. Hypothesized relationships are tested using survey responses from a sample of 260 respondents which consist of the Muslim teachers that teach at secondary school in Padang Terap district. Results revealed a positive relationship between all the independent variables with the awareness. In addition, all of the variables also had given influenced towards the awareness. The results reported in this research are useful to both industry and academics by providing relevant exploratory data about the awareness. The result should be able to recommend some suggestion on how to improve the awareness among secondary school teachers