Looking at the Depiction of Worldly Life in Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jauziyyah’s Poetry: A Revealing Meaning Through Riffaterre’s Semiotics Analysis
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This study aims to explore the meaning of worldly life in Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jauziyyah's poem through Riffaterre's semiotic approach. This poem highlights the importance of understanding worldly life, a relevant theme amidst the relentless pressures of worldly life. To deepen the understanding of the meaning and significance of this poem, Riffaterre's semiotic approach is used, which emphasizes intertextuality and interpretation of the text as a dynamic process. This approach involves four main aspects: discontinuity of expression, heuristic and hermeneutic reading methods, the concept of matrix, model, and variant, and the formation of hypograms. Primary data comes from the text of Ibn Al-Qayyim al-Jauziyyah's poem, and secondary data comes from related books and scientific articles. Data analysis follows the perspective of Miles and Huberman, including data reduction, presentation, and conclusion. The results of the study show that Ibn Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah describes worldly life in his poetry compositions with various images, including images of the world perishing like someone dreaming in the arms of a lover, clouds that will disappear if exposed to sunlight, and food that is very delicious and attractive but disgusting. Then he explained that there is nothing more despicable than the humiliation of the world for people who devote themselves to the interests of the world, where this world is like the wings of a mosquito, which are very small and weak. He describes how strange it is for humans to live in the world, as strange as humans who live nomadic lives, and he longs to return to their hometown happily to achieve victory, namely the paradise they long for. Understanding the description of worldly life in the poetry of Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah, how people are deceived by it, and how they should behave in facing worldly life is not only limited to providing knowledge but will also be an antidote to various life pressures.
Keywords: Life Pressure, Poetry of Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah, Worldly Life’s Depiction, Riffaterre's Semiotics, Directions in Dealing with Worldly Life.
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