| Abstrak/Abstract |
The poetry collection Maulid Al-Diba’I contains within dominant messages of beauty, which are voiced explicitly, and ugliness, which are presented implicitly. This poetry collection, a text of salutation to the Prophet, has endured into the 21st century and inspired others to write poems in the same genre that explicitly reveal the beauty and ugliness of humanity in their lines. The tradition of reading from the collection Maulid Al-Diba’i in the Islamic world, particularly in Indonesia, has been marked by enthusiasm for the text and its recitation as a means of voicing their longing for the Prophet. This article applies the theory of aesthetic realism, which contains within it two key concepts: physical beauty and divine beauty. Physical beauty is related to the perceptions of the senses, and is cognitive, cultural, and natural, whereas divine beauty is perceived through the mind and promotes awareness and mental experience. The analytical method used in this study is likewise one of aesthetic realism, which perceives everything as part of a beauty and within opposition.
Keywords: Maulid Al-Diba’i, aesthetic realism, beauty, ugliness. |
