'Ainulmardiyyah: A Heavenly Reward Promised by Acehnese Jihad Texts
Abstract
The sanctity of Acehnese conceptualisation of jihad for the promise of heaven becomes apparent via a heavenly houri called 'Ainulmardiyyah. She is the maiden waiting for her "husbands" in the heaven who fall in the battlefield. This paper discusses the portrayal of ʻAinulmardiyyah (maidens in heaven for a Muslim martyr) in the most celebrated Acehnese text on Islamic holy war, Hikayat Prang Sabi (HPS). The hikayat text is first approached philologically to verify the adaptations that likely have been made. Methods of commentary are employed by comparing the portrayal of the houri in the hikayat and other texts with holy war themes. The texts are then approached semantically to analyse any underlying concepts and standard vocabularies used in text on the female charm. Hence, this guides this paper to formulate a pattern of how portrayal of the houri is used to spur the mujahidin to fight for the dignity of their religion and state. It is found that the endorsement of 'Ainulmardiyyah in the Hikayat Prang Sabi text is subject to Islamic teaching that is transmitted not only through the Qur'an and the sunnah, but also numerous Islamic eschatological texts heralding the holiness of martyrdom in jihad. The promise of the tantalising reward of heaven is also intensified by socio-political factors throughout Aceh's history.
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Al-Raniri, N. (1929). Bad’u khalq al-samawat wa al-ard. Mustafa Al-Babi Al-Halabi wa Auladuh.
Al-Sanʻani, M. I. (1993). Musir al-garam ila taibah wa al-balad al-haram. Dar al-Haramayn.
Al-Sawi, A. M.(2006). Hashiyat al-sawi ʻala tafsir al-jalalayn. Shirkah Al-Quds.
Al-Razi, F. D. (1990). Al-tafsir al-kabīr aw mafatiḥ al-gaib (14th ed.). Dar al-Kutub al-‘Ilmiyyah.
Ali Muhammad & Hiariej, E. (2021). Deradicalization program in Indonesia radicalizing the radicals. Cogent Social Sciences, 7(1), 43–48.
Asriani. (2018). Analisis unsur intrinsik dalam Hikayat Prang Sabi karya Teungku Chiek Pante Kulu. [Seminar]. Seminar Internasional Riksa Bahasa, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia. http://proceedings.upi.edu/index.php/riksabahasa/article/view/164/157
Atik Wartini. (2013). Tafsir feminis M. Quraish Shihab: Telaah ayat-ayat gender dalam tafsir Al-Misbah. Palastren, 6(2), 473–94.
Cut Maya Aprita Sari, Kartini Aboo Talib @ Khalid & Shazlin A. Hamzah. (2022). From “song of war” to “song of peace”: The role of Hikayat Prang Sabi for Acehnese ethnonationalism. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 9(1), 2062894, 1–23.
Edriana Noerdin. (2005). Politik identitas perempuan Aceh. Women Research Institute.
Esposito, J. L. (2003). The Oxford dictionary of Islam. Oxford University Press.
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Firestone, R. (1999). Jihad: The origin of holy war in Islam. Oxford University Press.
Ibn al-Jawzi, A. F. A. R. (1995). Musir al-garam al-sakin ila asyraf al-amakin. Dar al-Hadit.
Ibn al-Nahhas. (2002). Masyariʻ al-asywaq ila masariʻ al-ʻusysyaq wa musir al-garam ila dar al-salam, fī al-jihad wa-fadaʼilih. Dar al-Basha’ir al-Islamiyah lil-Tiba‘ah wa-al-Nashr wa-al-Tawzi‘.
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Mukhlis & Herman, R. N. (2021). Inspirational stories in the Hikayat Prang Sabi as character education that souls jihad Aceh. Psychology and Education, 58(2), 4344–4360.
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Perry, S., & Hasisi, B. (2015). Rational choice rewards and the jihadist suicide bomber. Terrorism and Political Violence, 27(1), 53–80.
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Muhammad Sahlan, Ade Ikhsan Kamil, Iromi Ilham, Khairul Amin. (2021). “Dari Ainal Mardhiah ke si Kakek Merah”: Ethnography of the community response towards COVID-19 pandemic [Proceedings]. International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM), Atlantis Press SARL, 495, 209–214.
Schimmel, A. (1995). Die Zeichen Gottes: Die religiose Welt des Islam. CH Beck.
Schröter, S. (2019). Politischer Islam: Stresstest fur Deutschland (2nd ed.). Gütersloher Verlagshaus.
Schumann, O. (2008). Jihad for whom? The radicalization of religion as a response to policitcal oppression: From Turkish to Indonesian Islam. Journal of Indonesian Islam, 2(2), 240–266.
Shahab, I. F., Ismail, M., Suud, Y. A., Kalim, N., & Utari, F. D. R. (2005, January 10). Requiem untuk Aceh.” Tempo. https://majalah.tempo.co/read/layar/97540/requiem-untuk-Aceh.
Siegel, J. T. (1969). The rope of God. University of California Press.
Snouck Hurgronje, C. (1906). The Achehnese (Vol. 2). E. J. Brill.
Stone, T. E., McMillan, M., & Hazelton, M. (2015). Back to swear one: A review of English language literature on swearing and cursing in western health settings. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 25, 65–74.
Syarwan Ahmad. (2018). Hikayat Prang Sabi and combating zeal of the Acehnese fighters during the Dutch Occupation. In A. Widyanto & R. Yusni (Eds.). Ar-Raniry international conference on Islamic studies (pp. 198–212). Ar-Raniry Press.
Syukri Rizki. (2019). Hikayat Prang Sabi: Acehnese Jawi as a medium of successful da’wa [Proceeding]. International Conference on Da’wa and Communication, 1(1), 170–183.
Syukri Rizki. (2020). Flexibility of Prang Sabi verses: Ever-changing Acehnese perceptions of holy war. Jurnal Masyarakat dan Budaya, 22(2), 227–242.
Taufiqur Rahman. (2016). The trajectory of the discourse of jihad in Indonesia. Analisa Journal of Social Science and Religion, 1(2), 160–179.
The Qur’an. (A. Yusuf ‘Ali, Trans.). (2008). Saba Islamic Media.
Voorhoeve, P. (1994). Catalogue of Acehnese manuscripts in the library of Leiden University and other collections outside Aceh. Leiden University Library.
Published
2023-10-30
How to Cite
RIZKI, Syukri; MANAN, Abdul.
'Ainulmardiyyah: A Heavenly Reward Promised by Acehnese Jihad Texts.
Malay Literature, [S.l.], v. 36, n. 2, oct. 2023.
ISSN 2682-8030.
Available at: <https://jurnal.dbp.my/index.php/MalayLiterature/article/view/8714>. Date accessed: 07 may 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.37052/ml36(2)no1.
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