CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
The Alchemist delivers a lot of messages inspiring the readers around the world. Almost the messages can be accepted by people without any border of
religion, ethnicity, state, culture, and geography. The messages are related to basic life matters that all people have experienced them. Within those messages, the
writer finds out that many wisdom of the author’s resemble thought and wisdom emerge in Islamic tradition and thought. Yet, the writer only focuses to the
philosophical thought of man. Man is considered one of three prominent aspects of metaphysics which
scholars attribute it as trilogy of metaphysics; God, universe and man. The three beings are the bases of the existences exist, although we can easily say that God as
the most prominent factor of everything exist. In discussion of Coelho’s view to man, the writer selects only three themes that most of people in Muslim world
concern about. They are man as microcosm, man as the theomorphic, and man and his freedom.
First, man is as microcosm because he contains all aspects of universe; such mineral, plant, animal. The idea of microcosm-man is deeply related with the
fact that man is the ultimate stage of evolution. Coelho describes man as microcosm through the shepherd: in The Alchemist, the shepherd states that he has
a potency of being everything in the universe, because he knows from The
Alchemist that man is the representation of universe whose ingredients of his creation made of the elements of the universe and its contents.
Second is man as theomorphic creature. Man is basically a theomorphic that means, behind his weakness and limitation, a man has a “thing” inside
himself then we know it as the divine attributes. This case does not mean the anthropomorphism of God, because His essence is eternal and constant. It is
different from man’s that is mortal and changing. The man who has the divine attribute is called in Islamic thought as the
universal man insan kamil. The universal man level indicates the position of this species in the universe that is as the mirror of God. According to Sufis that is
along with Coelho’s view, the universe is not only a creature but also the manifestation of God’s attributes, therefore every aspect of this universe is to
manifest and reflect the God’s attributes that is along with each level of creature existence. The higher level the more God’s attributes are reflected and manifested
to universal man. The mineral things such stones are also reflecting God’s attribute, but it matches with its level. A dust contains millions of atom, and every
atom consists of incredible nuclear force reflecting the greatness of God jalal. Third is about man and his freedom. There are three mainstreams
discussing this problem is first determinism; this school view that all human do had set up by God thoroughly, there is no possibility and chance to have a
freedom even a little. So the man’s deed, effort, and will are nothing but God’s will Himself. This school or ism believed that man’s fate and deed are set from
the ancient age azali. The second is free will ihktiari states man’s deed and
effort absolutely belong to man, so there is no God’s involvement to whom will choose whether bad or good. But in the recent discussion, we find the school that
poses in between, the school is following know as the Ahl-Bait, although there lots of Islamic scholar’s view outside the school resembles that moderate view.
This school view man’s freedom is gift from God, it means God Himself bestows force to man being a potency and power to run his responsibility as vice-gerent of
God on earth, but the decision of choosing either badness or goodness is in the hand of man.
From the three mainstreams Coelho adopts the first through some statements in the novel by using various contexts. And also he accepts the third
that states man is bestowed “the force” to realize what he wants. About the second mainstream, Coelho rejects the concept of inability of man realizing his of
destiny. Coelho calls it as the world’s greatest lie that never been any possibility to be correct. The man who loses control on his deed and effort is someone who
has already lost his epistemological instruments; senses, imagination, intellect and intelligence. That man is not called as a man anymore; the appropriate term for
him is “an animal” that lives with the instinct solely.
B. Suggestion
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