By Tawvicky Hidayat
Abstract
This article reveals the philosophical values in “College
in America” script drama portrayed by Lewis D. Eigen, and this article is to
analyze the literary works. The main analysis in this article is to explain the
philosophical values in the drama script, which is containing two kinds of
values, namely the essence of life and the essence of love. The main purpose of
this article is an analysis of one of the literary works. The analyzing of this
article is using Islamic perspectives. So that, first, the writer tries to find
and analyze the philosophical values, and the second, he tries to combine and
analyze it using the perspective of Islam. Furthermore, because of this Islamic
perspective, in this article will be found many analysis by using Al-Quran,
Al-Hadits, and Ijma’ul Ulama’.
The writer chose “College in America” portrayed by Lewis D. Eigen to be
analyzed because this script contains many philosophical values of life and
love, especially Islamic values. Especially for anyone who wants to take
college abroad, this article is very useful. This script is telling the story
about Mark Mansur who took college in America, and his father,
Abdullah Mansur, is worry and afraid that his son would
be contaminated by other person. As known, there are many non-Muslims people in
America. And it is done because the father loves him very much. Therefore, his
father called Wakil Rachid as senior imam and Mahfudz Ibn Ubaid as his junior
to give some advices for his son, mark Mansur. So that, there are many values
of life and love in this script Islamic drama by Lewis D. Eigen, which is told
beautifully in this script drama by giving some advices told by Wakil Rachid
and Mahfudz Ibn Ubaid. This script drama told the reader many philosophical
values without any intention to give some advices, in other words, Lewis D. Eigen is genius because he shows Islam softly,
gently, and easily, no intending to be a teacher or even a murabby. Derived
from that analysis, it is proposed to make this article is useful for the
students to take many philosophical values of life and love. So that, for the
teacher, it is suggested for them to use this drama to be the instrument to
make their zeal, motivation, knowledge, increased, especially who wants to know
and analyze the comparison between Islam and America.
Keywords:
philosophical values, college in America, the essence of
life, the essence of love
Based
on Graham Little literature is a study about human life that contains human
life feeling, such as happiness, sadness, tragedy, glory, adversity, etc.
Literature also means a media for expressing human interest. In fact,
literature and life have a quite same meaning each other. It also has an
important role in educating students because studying literature is used in
formal education as like what Graham Little, in his book Approach To Literature
supposed: There is the study of literature. Men have always found it essential,
from the most primitive stages of society to the most advanced, to teach their
scriptures, lore and legends to their children (Little, 1966, p. 1).
In
this article, the writer tries to reveal Islamic drama script. Drama is a term
used for that branch of literature that covers dramatic composition. It is
known already that drama is a literary art. The basic difference between drama
and other forms of literature (prose and poetry) is that drama is presented in
dialogue from the beginning to the end. Any information by the playwright is
given in stage- direction. There are dialogues in prose and poetry but they are
interjected in the course of the story (Iwuchukwu, 2008, p. 5).
Drama
is same as novel, short story, and poetry as a narrative art, and it also
presents a story. Same as story, it has goal to give interesting and to give
pleasure and entertainment. According to Alternbend (1989, p. 1) drama is a
narrative art, one of several modes in which mankind has learned to present a
story. Stories are represented to give pleasure, to entertain. In addition,
they have a wide range a function of society; they may, for example, conserve
its legends, order its laws, explore its problems, demonstrate its codes,
ridicule, its weaknesses, or extend its knowledge. Stories must in some way
happen within the range of human nature; the emotion of the characters, their
reason for doing as they do, and how it feels to them to be in such situations
must be within the range of responses of the recipient of the story.
This
drama “College in America” by Lewis D. Eigen tries to portray many values in life
and love. And also, to compare between Islamic teachings and situation of
America, and the relationship between America and Muslims people, especially in
education. In order that, there are many values of life and love can be taken
by the students in this drama script.
Lewis
D. Eigen is one of the best writers in America. He has many drama scripts that contain
Islamic teachings, the relationship between Islam and other religion, and Islam
minority. Some of his drama scripts are College in America, The Martyred Son,
The Dinner of the Politician Tunisians, The 100 Millions Muslims Minority, etc.
He is not only a drama writer but also a book writer, especially a political
book. Some of his greatest book are The Obama Political Appointee Primer,
Dictionary of Political Quotations, The Macmillan Dictionary of Political
Quotations, and The Managers Book of Quotations. Eigen is a genius writer that
can create drama most valuable meaning in Islamic understanding. He is a genius
because he can spread a beauty of Islam by drama dialogue that can answer many
bad opinions about Islam. He can spread the beauty of Islam in easy way.
College
in America is one of Eigen’s best drama script that explores the conditions of
Muslims students in America. It reveals how they live, how they interact with
non-Muslims students, and how they do worship to Allah in America. In this
script, there are many values of life, such as amusement, humoring and honoring
parents, to say sorry, a good environment, a good discussion, father’s responsibility,
the importance of family members, clan members, and fellow believers, bring up
our country, helping others even the unbelievers, prohibition to see aurah,
thanking to Allah, the way to dress, parents’ honor, amar ma’ruf nahi munkar,
mahram in Islam, dutiful to parents, peace and right, do not blame general
thing, tolerance, freedom, prohibition of rape, people tends to follow as ducks
do, wisdom of Allah, Allah is the omniscient. And there are many values of
love, like love is concerning, love is worrying, love is care, love is feeling
afraid, love is appreciation, power of belief in love.
Philosophical
Values
Philosophical value refers to the value
of philosophy. In other words, it is that field of philosophy that deals with
value in general. The content of philosophical value, even fragmentarily, can
already be found in ancient times. But, it is in modern times, especially after
Kant made his well-known distinction between fact and value, that philosophical
value became an important field of study in philosophy.
Based
on Mustofa (2014, p. 24) the study of philosophical value, or goodness, in the
widest sense of the terms. The significance of this study are:
1.
Considering the giving meaning of the
term value.
2. Unification
that has provided of the study of variety.
Philosophy
can be defined as people ways of thinking on understanding things or idea,
facing people’s life, and solving their problems of life. Usually philosophy is
considered the reflection the experiences in life which concerns to humanity.
Philosophy also defined as reflection of varieties of human experience, or as
the rational, methodical, and systemic consideration of the topics that are of
greatest concern of humanity. (taken from www.merriam-webster.com)
Philosophical
values tries to comprehend people and how its existence. Dealing with that, it
needs understanding two kinds of values, life and love.
Values
of Life
Based on the
book of “Literary Works: Life and Love” compiled by Mutmainnah Mustofa (2014,
p. 27), there are many values of life when someone explores them one by one.
They can help someone to develop a clearer sense of what is most important to
his or herself in life. Someone can make the personal values in life in order
or priority and that personal list of values can get the one to reach the
better future. The examples of values of life are: acceptance, accessibility,
amusement, appreciation, care, wisdom, peace, belonging, concentration,
control, ethics, fame family, freedom, friendship, humor, love, obedience,
religiousness, etc.
The core of life is a philosophical question
that concerns the significance
of life or existence in universal
world. It can also be expressed in different forms, such as "Why are we
here?", "What is life all about?", and "What is the purpose
of existence?" It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological speculation
throughout history. There have been a large number of proposed answers to these
questions from many different cultural
and ideological backgrounds. Philosophical
value in life is also meant how we bear a meaning in the significance of life.
The purpose of bearing the meaning of life is to know the goodness and badness
in life, so that people can act something good for other people. If they know
the significance of life, they will be able to make the world in harmony, and
far from the war and the chaos.
The
meaning of life is in the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness, and borders on
many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of one or multiple Gods,
conceptions
of God, the soul,
and the afterlife.
Scientific contributions focus primarily on describing related empirical facts about the universe, exploring the
context and parameters concerning the 'how' of life.
Values
of Love
According
to Al-Ghazali, love is seeing with spiritual is sharper than seeing with eyes.
It’s because spiritual seeing is more sensitive than eyes. An abstract beauty
caught by heart is more passionate than concrete beauty. He continued that a
man is a goodness servant, that his heart will love someone who is kind to him.
It is different with Allah, the mercies and blessings giver. (Widianti, 2000,
p. 55)
According
to Montagu, American psycholog, love is feeling of attention, affecting, and
liking deeply. Usually, love is followed by missing and desire to the object.
(Widianti, 2000, p. 37)
According
to Imam Al-Qusyairi Al-Naisaburi in the book of Al-Risalah, love is defined as
six types of love, from love is like a pure love and affection, until love as a
source of life and a place of glory or a place of contemptible in searching a
lover. (Widianti, 2000, p. 37)
In a book of Mutmainnah
Mustofa (2014, p. 26) there are many values of love, love is accepting, love is
appreciating, love wants the best for them.
Love
is a accepting means labeling someone’s okay and no particular desire to change
one other. Love is appreciation means when one’s focus on what he really likes
about someone. Love is wanting the best means the people want the best for his
children’s safety (Mustofa, 2014, pp. 26-27).
There
are many kinds of love. As Sternberg stated about components of love, there are
three components of love, intimacy, passion, and commitment. From those
components, it can be divided into eight categories; they are no love, liking,
infatuation, empty love, romantic love, companionate love, fatuous love, and consummate
love (Widianti, 2000, p. 60).
Analysis
of Lewis D. Eigen’s “College in America”
In
this drama script “College in America”, there are many values that
contains philosophy. The writer cannot mention one by one because of the
limited words in this article. Some of them they are:
Honoring
Parents
Honoring
parents is one of philosophical values of life. In every religion teaches how
to honor parents, how to treat them the best in every condition. There are many
data in this drama script concerning this value of life.
“Well
you always were and still are a good son, and
you humored and honored your father in a day where many young men do not always
do so…….”
In
the data above, Imam said to Mark Mansur that Imam was proud to Mark, because
he can humor and honor his father in his old life, since young men did not do
it so. To honor parents is an obligation for human. Parents have done his best
to educate and teach them about meaningful aspects in life. Parents are first
stage of school that teach them before we born to this world until now.
In
Islamic perspectives, Islam is a religion that is very concerning in honoring
parents. In Islam, to obey parents’ order is the next step after obeying Allah
and Rasulullah’s order. If Muslims do not obey parents’ order they will be
tortured in the hell. And if they obey parents order they will enter paradise,
after obeying Allah and Rasulullah’s order. Islam is one of religion that has
commandment to obey parents as long as the commandment is not out of syari’ah.
To obey parents in Islam is the obligation, and to fight against them is a
prohibition. Even if to say disrespect words to parents is prohibited, more
than that to fight against them. As firman Allah in Surah Al-Isra’ ayat 17:
“And
your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to
your parents. If one of them or both of them attain old age in your life, say
not to them a word of disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms
of honour.” (QS Al-Isra’:17)
And
another data of honoring parents is:
“Her
father should have been informed so that he can discipline her and regain his
honor,” said Mahfuz ibn Ubaid. “Have you done so?” he asked Mark.
And
other data:
Mark
was puzzled, “I don’t get it. I can understand that you believe that
women should be all covered up, but why do you refer to the father’s
honor? If anything, it’s the girl’s honor that is at stake. I’m not
going to call her father—it’s none of my business in the first place, and
second, I don’t think that it affects him at all. Aiesha is over 19 years
old.”
In
the above statement shows that Mahfudz
Ibn Ubaid said that Mark had to inform Aiesha father (because of the way of her
dressing) so that he can regain his honor. The data shows that children (son
and daughter) must follow their parents command. Furthermore, children must
honor their parents (father and mother).
In perspective of Islam, Muslims
have to honor their parents. Because of that honor Muslims have to obey their
parents. In order that, they have to fulfill their duty to honor parents. For
someone whom his parents passed away, he must send prayers for his parents to
Allah SWT to protect them. When a child became bad, it was father’s fault
because he is not really care on him. It will break father’s honor, not
children’s honor. It is because the responsible one of children’s environment
is a father. Then, a father was blamed when the children have a bad attitude.
So that, children must honor their parents if they want to regain honor from
Allah.
Helping
Others Even the Unbelievers
Muslims can make friend with the unbelievers or the
infidels, but they cannot count on them like they can count on family members,
clan, and fellow believers. Sometimes, the kindness of the unbelievers is not
sincerely, but the intention and the attention of family members, clan members,
and fellow believers are unconditional, it names unconditional love. In Islam
helping others, even the unbelievers, is no matter. The forbidden one is to
follow their spiritual, religion, culture that outside the Islamic teaching.
Also, when people helped them, they also deserved to help by them. As in surah
al-kafirun, 109, p. 1-6:
1. Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon
him)to these Mushrikûn and Kâfirûn): "O Al-Kâfirûn (disbelievers in Allâh,
in His Oneness, in His Angels, in His Books, in His Messengers, in the Day of
Resurrection, and in Al-Qadar, etc.)!
2. "I worship not that which
you worship,
3. "Nor will you worship that
which I worship.
4. "And I shall not worship
that which you are worshipping.
5. "Nor will you worship that which
I worship.
6. "To you be your religion, and to me my
religion (Islâmic Monotheism)."
Like in the
data:
“And you in turn would
help and protect them if they needed such, would you not?”
That data shows when Abdullah Mansur
hesitated that his son, Mark Mansur, will live in America in adversity. In
America his son lived alone with no friend, and he was afraid that no one could
give him a help. Mark Mansur said that he was helped by American people. And then
Imam Wakil Rachid asked Mark Mansur whether he helped them in turn they helped
him in any problems. He said that yes he helped him. In this case, Imam Wakil
Rachid said that helping the unbelievers is no matter, but to follow their
worship is the forbidden one. More than that, to follow their religion and to
become infidel is the most forbidden one.
Sometimes,
people do not want to help some person because he has a different religion. In
Islam it is one of obligation to help others even other religion. People have
to obey their parents even they are non-Muslim as long as their command is in
one way with Allah command. Helping others even the unbelievers is one of
philosophical values in this drama script.
Even
if Muslims can rely on the unbelievers, but no one can count on like we can
count on our family members, clan members, and fellow believers. Of course
Muslims can make friend with the unbelievers, but we cannot count on them like
we can count on family members, clan, and fellow believers. Sometimes, the
kindness of the unbelievers is not sincerely, but the intention and the
attention of family members, clan members, and fellow believers are the
greatest love at all.
Like in the data:
“…….It is a
throwback to the desert Mark. If you ran into a group of people who were
not friends or relatives they would doubtless rob you and might just as soon
slit your throat. The family, clan,
and tribe are all that protected one. There is no government in the
desert. No other institutions but your own will be of assistance to
you. It’s so ingrained that I believe that your psychologists believe we
developed a response generalization to strangers if there is not family or clan
to provide protection.”
The younger imam was a
little caught off guard. “Yes Imam, in this case I do, but I hesitate to
add that, in general, one cannot count on
other people in as well as you can count on family, clan members and fellow
believers.”
The writer cannot imagine if we do
not have a family member, clan, and fellow believer, how can people live in
this wild world. That is why Allah created mother, father, brother, and sister.
If people live without them, how can people share their everyday problems.
Bringing
up Religion, Country, and Culture
Bringing up religion, country, and culture in one’s
life is very importance, especially a good character of one’s religion,
country, and culture. As the first president of Indonesia Mr. Soekarno said
about it “JASMERAH (jangan sekali-kali melupakan sejarah)”, means “do not ever
forget the history!”. There are many obligations in Islam, such as doing 5
times prayer, doing fasting, or even a good characters, such as honesty,
sincerity, surrendering, etc. A good values in a country, especially Indonesia,
like gotong royong (work together), musyawarah/ mufakat (discussion), etc. A
good values in a culture, such as reciting Al-Quran after maghrib prayer, girls
do not go out in the night, etc. As Muslims, people do not have to forget this
values in their daily life, even if they school in America, Australia, England,
China, etc. Some people when they go abroad, they are forgetting this great
values, so that, they become contaminated with their culture. They are
contaminated with pop culture, clubbing culture, free sex, drugs, etc.
As
in the data:
“Our bodies are not, but if you
have been brought up in the desert, your head and heart are always partially
there. Our ancestors were there and the stories and maxims that form our
culture come from the desert.” His father nodded in agreement.
When Imam Wakil Rachid explained to
Mark Mansur that he does not have to forget their culture in his country, he
said to Wakil Rachid “I think I understand. You explain it very well. But we
are not in the desert any more”. So, Wakil Rachid replied “Our bodies are not,
but if you have been brought up in the desert, your head and heart are always
partially there. Our ancestors were there and the stories and maxims that
form our culture come from the desert”. It can be explained that Mark said that
America was a different country, when he was in America, he would be a
different person, like American people (not in desert any more). Then Wakil
Rachid replied that of course our body is in a different country, but if we can
bring up the desert, we can bring the desert to there. Our history, maxims and
stories were there. From that it can be gotten philosophical values, how to
bring up one’s country to another country, how to bring up one’s religion to
another religion, and how to bring up one’s culture and civilization to another
culture and civilization.
This value is one of the best value
in this drama. It is because this value means that bringing up one’s country to
another country is one of one’s obligatory. Even if people go abroad, people do
not forget their religion, their culture, and do not make the abroad culture as
their culture. It will be dangerous thing. It is one of philosophical values in
life.
Love
is worrying, care, and feeling afraid
Worrying, care, and feeling is some of signs of
love. They are signs and tokens that lover is always wanting the best for
someone he or she loves. Worrying is feeling hesitation that someone or
something is going well or not. Caring is an attention to someone or something.
Afraid is more than feeling worry, it means a fear that someone or something
will be lost. They are all the signs and the tokens of love.
As in the data:
“I didn’t realize that Papa would worry about so many things. I
guess I should have talked to him more about college life before he
arrived. I’m sorry Papa.
I just didn’t think. You never had the opportunity to go to college, so
all this is new to you.”
In the above data, it shows that
Mark’s father, Abdullah Mansur, was always worry about his child, because his
child took college in America. He thought that America is a freedom country,
and Abdullah was afraid that Mark would not be in a good Islamic environment.
So that, Mark would be in a big problem and he would be isolated from Islamic
teachings. It makes a sense that Mark’s father worry about him. America is a
big country in which that a majority of the people are Christians, and Islam is
one of minority over there.
In Islam,
worrying is not a mistake. In Islam, worrying to someone who loves is required.
Sometimes parents are worry to their children because they are afraid of their
children do something terrible in their life such as drugs abuses, rape, free
sex, unsuccessful in education, etc. In this case, worry is not only required,
but is a must. As in surah At-Tahrim:6 told beautifully how to worry about
people’s worry and families not to be tortured to the hell.
O you who believe! Ward off from
yourselves and your families a Fire (Hell) whose fuel is men and stones, over
which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe, who disobey not, (from
executing) the Commands they receive from Allâh, but do that which they are
commanded. (At-Tahrim, 66:6)
In other data:
1. “Your
father is not sure that the environment
is good for a young, impressionable young man of your age,” Wakil Rachid
interpreted.
This
data shows a care of a father to his child, especially a first child. A care of
father can be included in philosophical value of love. Father always wanted the
best for their children, so that they take care and feel so worry to them. As
Muslim’s father, he has to take care of his children. In Islam, a father is an
Imam or means the leader of his family member, which contains father, mother,
and children. One of a duty of a father is to take care to his family member
condition. Too many ways to take care to the children, like by questioning
about his/her condition, questioning about any problems, and giving a solution
to solve those problems. A care is also a sign of love.
A
care is one of Islamic value. Allah is always caring to his servant. So that,
He ordered his servants to do everything in His way. He ordered them to pray,
to do fasting, pray tahajjud, to do pilgrimage, to do charity, it is because He
always care to His servant. We do all of Allah’s command is for Allah, but the
benefits are for His servant.
As
Allah said in surah An-Nisa’:
When
you are greeted with a greeting, greet in return with what is better than it,
or (at least) return it equally. Certainly, Allâh is Ever a Careful
Account Taker of all things. (4:86)
Allah
also ordered people to take care to their parents. If one of them or both of
them attain old age, Allah orders people to take care about them. As firman
Allah surah Al-Isra’:
And your Lord has decreed that you
worship none but Him. And that you be dutiful to your parents. If one of them
or both of them attain old age in your life, say not to them a word of
disrespect, nor shout at them but address them in terms of honour. (al-isra’,
17:23)
Also,
in other data:
“I think that is exactly what your father is afraid of—not you per se—but the
influences that you are under there. He wanted to discuss it with you, but feels that he may not be experienced or
educated enough to interpret what he saw and experienced. So that is why
he asked me if I would help. He just worries about you. You are his
first child, the first son, and you are no longer at home most of the time.”
It can be concluded that Mark’s
father afraid that Mark will be influenced by American people, especially his
colleagues, class-mates, and room-mates in America. This fear is because of his
obligation to do the best for his child. He was afraid that Mark would decrease
his knowledge in Islam, and would be influenced by American people. Fear is
something happened in every people, and it is humane. In Islamic history, when
one of shahabah of prophet Muhammad SAW hid in cave Hira’, shahabah afraid that
they caught with the infidels. So that, prophet Muhammad SAW said to him, “Do
not be afraid and do not worry, Allah will always be with us.” It can be
concluded that afraid is always be with us, but we don’t be afraid of it,
because Allah always sees, Allah is the omniscient, and Allah never lets His servants in sadness,
dangerous and adversity.
Sometimes,
people are afraid because they love. In Islam it is humane and not
extraordinary. Sometimes people are afraid to give charity because they love
their money. Sometimes they are afraid to lose their parents and children
because they love them. In Islam, it is ordinary. As firman Allah in Al-Quran:
Are you afraid of spending in
charity before your private consultation (with him)? If then you do it not, and
Allâh has forgiven you, then (at least) perform As-Salât (IqâmatasSalât) and
give Zakât and obey Allâh (i.e. do all what Allâh and His Prophet SAW order you
to do). And Allâh is All-Aware of what you do. (Al-Mujaidlah, 58:13)
Love
is Appreciation, Concerning and Acceptance
Appreciation, concerning, and acceptance are signs
of love. Furthermore, a lover must appreciate, concern, and accept someone that
he or she loves. Appreciation is one step after acceptance. It means when
lover’s focus is on what they love. When he or she looks at someone or
something he or she loves, he or she feels joy in life. Concerning is same as
appreciation. Concerning is a sign of appreciation. And acceptance means to
label that someone or something is good, and when they make something wrong, he
or she always forgives.
As in the data:
“I know that. And I really appreciate
what a wonderful father I have. I really don’t want to worry him.
So I too thought that you might be able to relieve some of his anxiety—at least
I hope you can.”
From the data above, it is known
that Mark Mansur was really appreciate his father Abdullah Mansur. So that, he
was sad when his father tended to worry, and he was distressing when his father
in anxiety. It is what is said the appreciation of love. Appreciation is all
about understanding. When people show their appreciation to someone, they are
thanking them, but they are also telling them that they understand what they
have done.
Allah is very
appreciative to His servants. Because of that, that’s why Allah created the
paradise and the hell. It is because His appreciation. Who became a good
servant will be entered to paradise, and who became bad servant will be
tortured to the hall. As firman Allah in His Glory book:
Why should Allâh punish you if you have
thanked (Him) and have believed in Him. And Allâh is Ever AllAppreciative
(of good), AllKnowing. (An-Nisa’, 4:147)
And also,
And whoever
desires the Hereafter and strives for it, with the necessary effort due for it
(i.e. do righteous deeds of Allâh's Obedience) while he is a believer (in the
Oneness of Allâh Islâmic Monotheism), then such are the ones whose striving
shall be appreciated, thanked and rewarded (by Allâh). 19. And whoever desires
the Hereafter and strives for it, with the necessary effort due for it (i.e. do
righteous deeds of Allâh's Obedience) while he is a believer (in the Oneness of
Allâh Islâmic Monotheism), then such are the ones whose striving shall be
appreciated, thanked and rewarded (by Allâh). (Al-Isra’, 17:19)
And also in other data:
“……….He has shared with me only that he is concerned about you—apparently
the result of his trip to Ann Arbor to pick you up.”
It
explains in the data above, that Abdullah Mansur concerned in Mark Mansur’s
problem as a father. Concerning is one of value of love, love of a father and a
child. Concerning shows that love is the appreciation, which is people focus on
someone that they love, and what they really like about someone. If they love
someone, automatically they often give their concentration to make him/her in a
happy life, in secure, and save. Parents must concern to their children’s
problem. Whether it is a problem in family, in school, or in his social
environment. Parents’ concentration to children often makes a sense with the
success of their children in the future. So that, parents have a whole
obligation on children’s education, beside teachers.
Concerning
is one values of love. Allah always loves His servants. That’s why He always
concerns with His servants conditions. In Al-Quran there are many verses
contains Allah’s concerning to His servants. As in the below verse about
concerning woman, especially an orphan woman:
They ask your legal instruction
concerning women, say: Allâh instructs you about them, and about what is
recited unto you in the Book concerning the orphan girls whom you give not the
prescribed portions (as regards Mahr and inheritance) and yet whom you desire
to marry, and (concerning) the children who are weak and oppressed, and that
you stand firm for justice to orphans. And whatever good you do, Allâh is
Ever AllAware of it. (An-Nisa’, 4:127)
Also,
in other data:
1. The
father didn’t accept that so quickly. “I didn’t know if what Mark was
doing was forbidden; that is one of the reasons we wanted to see you. He
doesn’t want to do anything that is haraam—forbidden—I’m sure.”
It
is found in the data above that Abdullah Mansur didn’t believed that his son
would do something haraam. Mark Mansur, will never do haraam, exactly. It
contains a power of believe in love. It means that, if people love someone,
they have to believe that he/she never do it without meaning. If people do
not believe in their lover, the question
is who wanted to believe in him/her.
In
Islamic perspective, acceptance is one of value of love. Allah always accepts
all of His servant who ever did a big sin to come back to His side, means to
repent and forswear to Him. If their sins are like a mountain, His mercy is
bigger than that. As in surah Al-Baqarah 54:
And (remember) when Mûsa (Moses)
said to his people: "O my people! Verily, you have wronged yourselves by
worshipping the calf. So turn in repentance to your Creator and kill yourselves
(the innocent kill the wrongdoers among you), that will be better for you with
your Lord." Then He accepted your repentance. Truly, He is the One Who
accepts repentance, the Most Merciful. (Al-Baqarah, 2:54).
Conclusion
Lewis D. Eigen is an
American political expert. But, beyond expectation, he is also an expert in
Islamic teachings. He is a genius because he can spread a beauty of Islam by
drama dialogue that can answer many bad opinions about Islam. He can spread the
beauty of Islam in easy way. “College in America” is one of his drama script
that contains many philosophical values of life and love. The writer cannot
mention one by one all the philosophical values in this drama, because of the
limited words and article, but he just can mention only the most significance.
In this drama, the writer only mentions some values of life, they are honoring
parents, helping others even the unbelievers, and bringing up the country. And
some values of love in this drama are love is worrying, care, feeling afraid,
and love is appreciation, concerning, and acceptance.
The writer hopes that this article
could give the reader a philosophical values, especially in the essence of life
and love. So that they could take lesson
learned and make it guidance to apply in every day’s life. The writer also
hopes the student can spread philosophical values in daily life activity. So,
they could study hard and never give up to face wild life, because they still
have love. And also this article is wanted to give a good contribution to the
parents and teacher in building the character of their students and their
children. So, they could teach the students about philosophical values in the
essence of life and love.
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