Measuring Literary Sides of Tuan Guru Abdul Madjid’s Creative Work Wasiat Renungan Masa Pengalaman Baru: A Study on the Most Influential Spiritual Leader of Lombok Island

Abstract

This paper is intended to discuss how far literary side of Mualana Syekh TGKH Muhammad Zainul Abdul Madjid’s work, from Pancor, East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara province entitled “Wasiat Renungan Masa Pengalaman Baru” (Advice of New Experience Era Contemplation). Maulana Syekh TGKH Muhammad Zainul Abdul Madjid is the Indonesian national hero and the most influential spiritual leader from Lombok. He is also known as a literary writer. Specifically, this paper tries to evaluate proper or not this work to be categorized as a literary work particularly in sense of its form and content. The discussion of this work is important since it has become one of the main references by Nahdhatul Wathan’s followers, an Islamic organization developing largely in Lombok and West Nusa Tenggara Province. The discussion of this work is hoped then as a way to know further the uniqueness of the work so anything comes up from the work able to be a representation of Indonesians or Malayans’ identity from West Nusa Tenggara. Therefore, this paper more or less can show how big the writer is in sense of being an inspirator for all Sasak people and West Nusa Tenggara people. In this regard, this paper tries to analyze literary sides of the work by using a simple logic from structuralism theory especially initialized by American structuralists in the New Criticism School.