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
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
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
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
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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
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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.
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(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
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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
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”.
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
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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
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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
