Sustainable human development: bi’ah salihah index in Al-Amin education system

Abstract

This paper presents spriritual component of the sustainable human development and a study had been made in Al-Amin education system. The salihah environment or bi’ah salihah index is proposed to measure the level of spiritualilty attained by the main stakeholders in Al-Amin schools. This paper takes the inspiration from few verses in the Holy Quran to develop items that can be used to measure the spiritual component of human development sustainability. The spirituality constitute of the faith (belief) and practice (actions) components. The bi’ah salihah index is then computed by taking the average of the mean from faith and practice of the students, teachers and parents (mean of the practice only).