RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LOVE FOR KNOWLEDGE, EXCELLENT MUSLIM PERSONALITY AND HUMAN TRANSFORMATION CAPITAL: A MODEL BUILT WITH STRUCTURAL EQUATION MEASUREMENT (SEM) (Hubungan antara Cinta Ilmu, Muslim Cemerlang dan Modal Transformasi Insan: Pembinaan Model Menggunakan Analisis Persamaan Struktural) 1, 2 SYAIDATUN NAZIRAH ABU ZAHRIN 2 NAZNEEN ISMAIL 2 NUR HIDAYAH MOHD ABD MALEK 1, 2 MASHITOH YAACOB 1, 2 FAZILAH IDRIS 1 Pusat Citra Universiti,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia 2 Institut Islam Hadhari,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia ABSTRACT The concept of love for knowledge is very relevant in building a great civilization. It is not only relevant, but should be given a serious emphasis because ilmu (knowledge) and amal (practice) are the core of human excellence. The purpose of the study was to model out the relationship between love for knowledge, excellent Muslim personality and Human transformation capital. The study was conducted on 767 students of the Institute of Higher Education around the Klang Valley, Malaysia. Structural Equation Modeling Analysis has been used for the purpose of identifying the role of human transformation capital as a mediator in determining the relationship between love for knowledge and excellent Muslim personality. The results of the analysis show that there was a significant positive relationship between love for knowledge and the excellent Muslims. While the transformation of human capital was found to function significantly as a partial mediator between love for knowledge and excellent Muslims. In other words, love for knowledge will JAKIM JABATAN KEMAJUAN ISLAM MALAYSIA Corresponding author: Syaidatun Nazirah Abu Zahrin, Pusat Citra Universiti,Uninersiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia/Institut Islam Hadhari,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia, mel-e: syaidatun@ukm.edu.my/ syaidatun77@hotmail.com Received: 27 April 2018 Accepted: 21 November 2018 Jurnal Hadhari 11 (1) (2019) 139-153 ejournals.ukm.my/jhadhari ISSN 1985-6830 eISSN 2550-2271 Bab 8 11(1) 2019.indd 139 5/29/2019 1:05:36 PM