PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

In Islam, fathers have a primary duty to provide for halal maintenance, education and good guidance to develop their children into a righteous and respectable person. Statistics from the Syariah Court of Terengganu showed 1371 cases of noncompliance with maintenance order filed between 2010 to 2016 and eight fathers had been ordered to be imprisoned for failure to do so. This study was conducted to determine the relationship between Muslim fathers' knowledge, attitude, religiosity and the intention to provide halal maintenance to the family. A total of 353 fathers participated in this study. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyse data. Result revealed that there were significant and positive relationships between knowledge, attitude and religiosity with the intention to provide halal maintenance. The findings implied that knowledge, attitude and religiosity influence fathers in their decision to provide halal maintenance to their families. Therefore, an increase in knowledge, attitude, and religiosity, will increase the level of intention to provide halal maintenance to the family.