“…At SMAN (Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri/State Senior High School) 1 Bojonegoro, PAI (Pendidikan Agama Islam/Islamic education) teachers administered several efforts in increasing students' emotional and spiritual intelligence. The efforts include: planning to learn well, optimizing students' readiness to receive material, analyzing and evaluating each learning, using persuasive language, instilling various approaches, fostering approaches appreciation and enthusiasm of the practice of religious teachings, developing Tadarrus al-Qur'ān (Mutmainah & Mufid, 2018). In the same vein, a study shows that students who could perform tahfidz had a high ability in recognizing emotions, managing emotions, motivating themselves, recognizing the emotions of others (empathy) and fostering relationships with others.…”