Syekh Amongraga’s Teachings Regarding Islamic Values to Tambangraras in Forty Nights in The Aisle Within Serat Centhini by Pakubuwana V

Abstract

Serat Centhini is a monumental work in macapat Javanese literature by Pakubuwana V. One of the most stands out episode in Serat Centhini is the story of Syekh Amongraga and Tambangraras’ first forty night of marriage. During that forty night, they did not do the physical intercourse as husband and wife, yet Syekh Amongraga taught about Islamic religion to Tambangraras and her family. There are many Islamic values that were taught by Syekh Amongraga in Serat Centhini. This article describes the Islamic values taught by Syekh Amongraga to Niken Tambangraras. His decision was definitely made for two reasons. First, his dowry was an Al-Qur’an. Therefore, there was an obligation of him to teach Islamic religion to Tambangraras. Second, Tambangraras only wanted to be married to a man with higher religiosity and higher religious knowledge than her father. The teaching he gave during their first forty nights of marriage was to prove that he was indeed a syekh or qualified religious teacher. The study was executed with objective literature theory. It was analyzing the data of Islamic religious teaching from Syekh Amongraga to Tambangraras through studying the facts in Serat Centhini as imaginary reality of work by Pakubuwana V. The data of this research were words, phrases, and discourses which were analyzed descriptive-qualitatively. Of the data analysis, it is concluded that there were Islamic religion values in the teaching of Syekh Amongraga to Tambangraras.