A STUDY OF MESSAGES ON MAHER ZAIN’S SONG LYRICS “INSHA ALLAH (GOD WILL) AND FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE”

A STUDY OF MESSAGES ON MAHER ZAIN’S SONG LYRICS “INSHA ALLAH (GOD WILL) AND FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE”

THESIS

By:

IKA ZUNI SUTIKA SARI 07360241

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING EDUCATION

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF MALANG

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

2014

This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education of University of Muhammadiyah Malang

And accepted as one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

OnJanuary 24th_{, 2014}

Approved by:

Faculty of teacher Training and Education University of Muhammadiyah Malang

Dean,

Examiner:

1.Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum

2.Dra. ThathitManon A.,M.Hum 3.Drs. Estu Widodo, M.Hum 4.Dr. Masduki, M.Pd

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillahirrohmanirrohim

Allhamdulilah, the writer would like to convey her deepest gratitude to the Almighty Allah SWT, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful, The Sall Compassionate, and The Master of The Master of The Universe who give her mercies and help in the process of her thesis writing. The writer believes that without Allah’s help. She could not finish her thesis well. Peace and blessing always be on our prophet Muhammad SAW.

The writer also dedicates her great appreciation and gratitude to her advisors; Mr. Estu Widodo, Drs., M.Hum as the first advisor and Mr. Masduki, Dr., M.Pd as second advisor who already gave guidance, patience, correction, suggestion, and support along the process of completing her thesis from the beginning up to the end.

Moreover, the writer ould like to express her big gratitude to her parents (Mr. Sutik Henry and Mrs. Sismizun) who give all of their affection, motivation, sweats, spirit and never stop praying for her. Also her lovely husband (Mr. Syam’un, S.T), her young brother (M. Zia Ulhaq) and her young sisters (Iffat Ma’rifat, Ina Zuyyina and Zia Rohima) thanks for your great love, support, praying and motivation.

In addition, the writer would like to express her thankful to her friends in the Religious Boarding Scholl (Pondok Pesantren Karangasem Muhammadiyaher, Paciran- Lamongan), Muhammadiyah Students Association (Ikatan Mahasiswa Muhammadiyah), IKAMI (Ikatan Kekeluargaan Mahasiswa/Pelajar Indonesia Sulawesi Selatan) and Archipelago Art Music. The following thanks to her parthners of Faculty of Teacher Training and Education at UMM office. The last, thanks to her cost family (Cipoet, Zaza Bawonk, Nopet, Nurol,

Cilpie, Mia, Ayu, Desy, Deniz, Aini and Trie) for accompanying her to go anywhere and also the writer is vry sorry to her friends that could not be mentioned one by one.

Finally, the writer hopes that this thesis is useful to the readers. May Allah SWT bless you all. Amin..Ya Robbal Alamin.“ Nun Walqolami Wa Ma Yasturun, Fastabiqul Khairat”

The Writer,

MOTTO AND DEDICATION

“Faidzaa Faroghta Fanshob Wa Ilaa Robbika Farghob”

(“If you’re in the spare timethen doing, work and hopefully end up on your God”)

“Fastabiqul Khairat” (Race to virtue)

This works dedicated to:

My beloved father and Mother, My lovely hubby,

My young brother, My young sisters, My big family at IMM

My family at IKAMI All my friends,

My lecturers of English Department at UMM

THANKS FOR:

UNDERSTANDING, EVERLASTING CARE, PRAYING AND SUPPORTING

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

APPROVAL ... i

LEGALIZATION ... ii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... iii

MOTTO AND DEDICATION ... v

ABSTRACT ... vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of Study ... 1

1.2Statement of Problem... 4

1.3Purpose of Study ... 5

1.4Significance of Study ... 5

1.5Scope and Limitation ... 6

1.6Definition of Key Terms ... 6

CHAPTER II REVIEW AND RELATED LITERATURE 2.1Literature ... 8

2.2Definition of Song ... 9

2.3Type of Song ... 9

2.4Meaning of Song ... 11

2.6Lyric ... 15

2.7Message ... 15

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODHOLOGHY 3.1Research Design ... 18

3.2Approach ... 19

3.3The Research Object ... 20

3.4Data ... 20

3.5Data Collection ... 20

3.6Data Analysis ... 20

CHAPTER IVFINDING AND DISCUSSION 4.1Finding ... 22

4.2Discussion ... 37

CHAPTER V CONLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1Conclusion ... 40

5.2Suggestion ... 43

APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Hidayah, Nurul. 2005. A Study of the Messages on Spice Girls’ Song Lyric “Goodbye”. Unpublised Thesis. Malang: UMM Press.

Hornby, A.S 1987. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. New York: CBS Collage Publishing.

Kennedy, XJ. 1983. Literature An Introduction to Fiction, Drama and Poetry. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

MacMilan, Scribner. 1984. Apreciating Literature. New York: MacMilan Publishing Company.

Moody, H.L.B. 1984. Literary Apreciation. London: Longman.

Nurgiyanto, Burhan. 1995. Teori Pengkajian Fiksi. Yogyakarta: Gadja Mada University Press.

Pateda, Mansoer. 20011. Semantik Leksikal. Yogyakarta: Rineka Cipta.

Perrine, Laurence. 1964. An Introduction to Poetry. USA Harcourt: Brace and Word Inc. Reaske, Cristopher Russel. 1966. How to Analyze Poetry. New York: Monarch University Press.

Siswantoro, 2002. Apresiasi Puisi - puisi Inggris. Surakarta. Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.

Sunardi, S.T. 2012. Vodka dan Birahi Sang Nabi. Yogyakarta: Jalasutra

Umar, Ali A. 2010. An Analysis on the Meanings and the Messages of Michael Jakcson’s Song Lyric “Black or White”. Unpublished Thesis. Malang: UMM Press.

1 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

In this chapter, the writer presents topics such as: background of study, statement of problem, purpose of study, significance of study, scope and limitation, and definition of key terms. Each section is presented as follows.

1.1 Background of Study

Art is a free mind owned by human being which produces an extraordinary artwork. Besides, art is an amazing imagination which plays mind beyond human logic. This is relevant to Sunardi’s ideas. He says that the art creating a way to peek at the infinite, the infinite of presenting with the finite. The formula is really just to say what we often call 'imagination'. Art gives us the space to go beyond the art room itself (2012: 14).

Music is an art that changes the world. Music is a part of human life as an inspiration and appreciation of the works of art which produces in beautiful and amazing in the form of a beautiful melody and harmony. Therefore, music became the wonderful of many people.

Hornby (in Mahzumi: 2006) states that song lyric is a short poem and number of verses set to music intended to be sung. Based on the statement, the lyrics of song are categorized into poem. It is a medium to express the author’s imagination, illusion, idea, feeling and message to the people.

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Message is delivered in the form of something that the content or the meaning of both orally and in writing. View of song, message is something that reflects what the singer wants to express to the listener of his/her song.

Zain is one of the famous singers in the world nowadays. He (born March 16, 1981) is a Swedish R&B singer and songwriter. Zain is the new star of Modern Islamic Music with his meaningful songs that aim to inspire and entertain people and send a message of peace and hope to the world. Besides, he is a music producer of Lebanese origin, that concern for religion, peace, love, support and activists who save the world and give sympathy for the supremacy of freedom and human right.

Zain’s debut album “Thank You Allah” is his first album was released at 1 November 2009 and consisted of 13 songs with an exclusive Percussion Version and a French Version released shortly afterwards. He sings mainly in English, but also, amongst others, in French, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and Malay. Each of this songs mostly tells about religion. In early March 2010, his debut album “Thank You Allah” (released by Awakening Records) was the No.1 highest selling album on Amazon (in the world music section). Besides, Zain’s debut album “Thank You Allah” reached the number 1 spot on Amazon’s World Music Chart and number 9 on the R&B charts.

The social network at Facebook page with over 2 million Zain’s fans comments about song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” at Maher’s debut album “Thank You Allah”. Most of them say this songs have soul messages because they are very touching our deepest heart. Besides, this songs are very interesting because the song lyrics “Insha Allah

3

(God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” have beautiful lyric, tune and

amazing messages that make us inspire every time we feel down. These songs makes us keep smile and spirit to face life so that we can have optimist personality every time. In other words, this songs invites us to do the best in our life with positive way so than we can have the best personality and useful human. Then song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” could be motivate people to act like “Fastabiqul Khairat” (Race to Virtue) in the world and after here.

Some research have been conducted to reveal cohesion devises and meaning in songs. Umar (2010), in his research showed that the message of song lyric “Black or White” talks about harmony despite many differences, which is the meaning inside the song that is racial harmony in the world. Besides, every different individual or race is expected to colour the life of human being all over the world, where there is no superiority upon particular race or nation and all people can live in unity. In this study, the reseacher performed several steps. First, he read carefully and understands every word listed in the text of the song. Then he must rephrase sentences that were difficult to understand. After that, he identified the general and detail meaning of the song contained in the lyrics before finally draw conclusions about the message contained in the song. Hence, understanding the general and detail meaning of the song in literary works is important because he would be able to understand every message contained in literary works.

Therefore, the writer was inspired to conduct a study of analyzing the messages in the lyrics of English song since many people like singing song

4

just for fun without knowing the meaning. At this time, the writer took Zain’s songs in “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” as the objects. Besides, these songs are interesting and inspiring because the messages behind each stanza are very touching, motivating and have deep meaning about optimist. That is the reason why the writer is interested in finding the general and detail meaning of Zain’s songs and messages behind the songs. This study focuses on the “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” lyrics of Zain’s album “Thank You Allah”. Additionally, the contrubution of this study to the languange learning is that the students or readers are able to learn English more easily. Both in speaking skill, listening, reading and writing. Besides, the students may spur more enthusiasm to learn English and to learn because it is done with pleasure.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Three problems are going to be accomplished in this study, namely:

1. What is the general meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha

Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”?

2. What is the detail meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah

(God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”?

3. What are the messages of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah

5 1.3 Purpose of the Study

The purposes of the study are focused to answer all of the research problems above, they are :

1. Describing the general meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha

Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

2. Describing the detail meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha

Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

3. Describing the messages of Maher Zain’s song lyric “Insha Allah

(God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

1.4 Significance of the Study

The writer of the thesis will give a brief explanation about the significance of the study for English students, in which song can develop their ability in studying English. In this case, English popular songs will be media to improve language learning skill, such as; listening, writing, vocabulary, and speaking. Beside for the readers, in the main time, this study can be complementary information about the poetic value and meaning of literary works especially in Maher Zain`s song lyrics.

For the literary works, a song in lyrical poetry is a valuable work of literature. Investigation in the lyrics’ work will contribute to the understanding of various form of literature.

Meanwhile, for the learning aspect, this research can makes students or readers are able to learn English more easily. Both in speaking skill, listening,

6

reading and writing. Besides, the students may spur more enthusiasm to learn English and to learn because it is done with pleasure.

Finally, it is hoped that this study will give useful information to all readers and will help to analyze a song.

1.5 Scope and Limitation

Music consists of many elements that can be analyzed such as melody, rhythm, sound, lyric, etc. For the writer of this thesis; it is difficult to analyze the whole elements as stated above because it will spend much time and energy.

The writer of this thesis focuses on the analysis of the messages in the song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”. In other words, this study is limited to the messages found in Maher Zain’s song lyrics

“Insha Allah (God Will) and for The Rest of My Life”.

1.6 Definition of Key Terms

In this study, the writer uses several terms. For the clarity sake, those are defined as follows:

1. Study is analyzing the message in Maher Zain’s Song “Insha Allah

7

2. Messages are something that reflects what the singer wants to

express to the listener of his song.

3. Song is a lyric poem adapted to musical expression. Song lyrics are usually short, simple, sensuous and emotional. There is no satisfactory classification for the various types can be divided, for instance, a variety of working songs, dance songs, love songs, war songs, play songs, etc

4. Lyric is any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single

speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling (Abram: 1999:146).

5. “Insha Allah (God Will) and for the Rest of My Life” are an titles of

Maher Zain’s song which is discussed in this study. These songs were released in 2009.

2

Message is delivered in the form of something that the content or the meaning of both orally and in writing. View of song, message is something that reflects what the singer wants to express to the listener of his/her song.

Zain is one of the famous singers in the world nowadays. He (born March 16, 1981) is a Swedish R&B singer and songwriter. Zain is the new star of Modern Islamic Music with his meaningful songs that aim to inspire and entertain people and send a message of peace and hope to the world. Besides, he is a music producer of Lebanese origin, that concern for religion, peace, love, support and activists who save the world and give sympathy for the supremacy of freedom and human right.

Zain’s debut album “Thank You Allah” is his first album was released at 1 November 2009 and consisted of 13 songs with an exclusive Percussion Version and a French Version released shortly afterwards. He sings mainly in English, but also, amongst others, in French, Arabic, Urdu, Turkish and Malay. Each of this songs mostly tells about religion. In early March 2010, his debut album “Thank You Allah” (released by Awakening Records) was the No.1 highest selling album on Amazon (in the world music section). Besides, Zain’s debut album “Thank You Allah” reached the number 1 spot on Amazon’s World Music Chart and number 9 on the R&B charts.

The social network at Facebook page with over 2 million Zain’s fans comments about song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” at Maher’s debut album “Thank You Allah”. Most of them say this songs have soul messages because they are very touching our deepest heart. Besides, this songs are very interesting because the song lyrics “Insha Allah

3

(God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” have beautiful lyric, tune and amazing messages that make us inspire every time we feel down. These songs makes us keep smile and spirit to face life so that we can have optimist personality every time. In other words, this songs invites us to do the best in our life with positive way so than we can have the best personality and useful human. Then song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” could be motivate people to act like “Fastabiqul Khairat” (Race to Virtue) in the world and after here.

Some research have been conducted to reveal cohesion devises and meaning in songs. Umar (2010), in his research showed that the message of song lyric “Black or White” talks about harmony despite many differences, which is the meaning inside the song that is racial harmony in the world. Besides, every different individual or race is expected to colour the life of human being all over the world, where there is no superiority upon particular race or nation and all people can live in unity. In this study, the reseacher performed several steps. First, he read carefully and understands every word listed in the text of the song. Then he must rephrase sentences that were difficult to understand. After that, he identified the general and detail meaning of the song contained in the lyrics before finally draw conclusions about the message contained in the song. Hence, understanding the general and detail meaning of the song in literary works is important because he would be able to understand every message contained in literary works.

Therefore, the writer was inspired to conduct a study of analyzing the messages in the lyrics of English song since many people like singing song

4

just for fun without knowing the meaning. At this time, the writer took Zain’s songs in “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” as the objects. Besides, these songs are interesting and inspiring because the messages behind each stanza are very touching, motivating and have deep meaning about optimist. That is the reason why the writer is interested in finding the general and detail meaning of Zain’s songs and messages behind the songs. This study focuses on the “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life” lyrics of Zain’s album “Thank You Allah”. Additionally, the contrubution of this study to the languange learning is that the students or readers are able to learn English more easily. Both in speaking skill, listening, reading and writing. Besides, the students may spur more enthusiasm to learn English and to learn because it is done with pleasure.

1.2 Statement of the Problem

Three problems are going to be accomplished in this study, namely:

1. What is the general meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”?

2. What is the detail meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”?

3. What are the messages of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”?

5 1.3 Purpose of the Study

The purposes of the study are focused to answer all of the research problems above, they are :

1. Describing the general meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

2. Describing the detail meaning of Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

3. Describing the messages of Maher Zain’s song lyric “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

1.4 Significance of the Study

The writer of the thesis will give a brief explanation about the significance of the study for English students, in which song can develop their ability in studying English. In this case, English popular songs will be media to improve language learning skill, such as; listening, writing, vocabulary, and speaking. Beside for the readers, in the main time, this study can be complementary information about the poetic value and meaning of literary works especially in Maher Zain`s song lyrics.

For the literary works, a song in lyrical poetry is a valuable work of literature. Investigation in the lyrics’ work will contribute to the understanding of various form of literature.

Meanwhile, for the learning aspect, this research can makes students or readers are able to learn English more easily. Both in speaking skill, listening,

6

reading and writing. Besides, the students may spur more enthusiasm to learn English and to learn because it is done with pleasure.

Finally, it is hoped that this study will give useful information to all readers and will help to analyze a song.

1.5 Scope and Limitation

Music consists of many elements that can be analyzed such as melody, rhythm, sound, lyric, etc. For the writer of this thesis; it is difficult to analyze the whole elements as stated above because it will spend much time and energy.

The writer of this thesis focuses on the analysis of the messages in the song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”. In other words, this study is limited to the messages found in Maher Zain’s song lyrics “Insha Allah (God Will) and for The Rest of My Life”.

1.6 Definition of Key Terms

In this study, the writer uses several terms. For the clarity sake, those are defined as follows:

1. Study is analyzing the message in Maher Zain’s Song “Insha Allah (God Will) and For the Rest of My Life”.

7

2. Messages are something that reflects what the singer wants to express to the listener of his song.

3. Song is a lyric poem adapted to musical expression. Song lyrics are usually short, simple, sensuous and emotional. There is no satisfactory classification for the various types can be divided, for instance, a variety of working songs, dance songs, love songs, war songs, play songs, etc

4. Lyric is any fairly short poem, consisting of the utterance by a single speaker, who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling (Abram: 1999:146).

5. “Insha Allah (God Will) and for the Rest of My Life” are an titles of Maher Zain’s song which is discussed in this study. These songs were released in 2009.