Transcendental intelligence is ability to listen to conscience or divine whisper of truth in the way of taking decision or make choices, empathize, and adaptable. Therefore, transcendental intelligence determined by the effort to purify and enlighten the heart (tazkiyyah) so as to provide advice and direction of action and the way in making decisions. One of function of the heart is to feel and experience; which means it is able to capture the sensory functions that are summarized and reflected back to the outside world, and this process is called to experience.
The center of transcendental intelligence in the heart is love. Love is not a feeling of sensory but spiritual feeling, therefore the feeling of love can exceed sensory feelings. Transcendental intelligence is not only cognitive intelligence, but also the ability of the hearth which then reflected into the attitudes and actions that affect the live.
In theory, transcendental intelligence is similar to the theory of tasawuf in general that is the way to clean the human heart in order that human beings become closer to God. Student of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy Department are students who study tasawuf in lectures. When compared with other departments in Ushuluddin and Humaniora Faculty, student of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy get more courses on tasawuf so that it can be concluded that the student of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy has knowledge of tasawuf that is more than the students of other departments in the Ushuluddin and Humaniora Faculty which then influence the mindset and behavior of students.
Therefore, this study aims to prove the hypothesis that there is difference between the transcendental intelligence of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students to students of other departments in Ushuluddin and Humaniora Faculty of UIN Walisongo Semarang period 2013. This study uses quantitative designs by using t-test analysis to find differences in the two different groups.
From the results of this study it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between transcendental intelligence of of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students and Non-Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students in Ushuluddin and Humaniora Faculty. So the hypothesis is proved correct. T test results show the value of t 5.881 with significant p value 0.000 with a significance of 0.001 so that it can be concluded that there is a significant difference between transcendental intelligence of Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students and Non-Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students where Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students have the higher mean than Non-Tasawuf and Psychotherapy students.