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By: Ulil Abshar Abdalla Why are people afraid of sex? Goenawan may need to republish the essay ever about sex position in our literature with respect to the movement of time and the current conversation.
I can understand the "hysteria" portion of American la stampa vco society after watching "The Inconvenient Truth", Al Gore's notion fruit. But I can not understand why people should be hysterical about sex, eroticism, and the female body (as well, of course, men).
Is actually desired by people like Taufiq la stampa vco Ismail, if we want to try to give him some sort of "right of doubt" (the benefit la stampa vco of the doubt)? Is the issue of sex and eroticism is not allowed in at all in the world of creation creative? In my opinion, menyanitasi creative la stampa vco world of sex was a kind of madness. Therefore, Scripture la stampa vco was not able to do that. There are always parts in any Scripture that contains about kejenisan and stimulus type.
Unfortunately, Taufiq never grow in the tradition of Arabic literature assessment. One of the paradoxes that are impossible or difficult to avoid by scholars of the Qur'an is the following. During this time Muslims believe that the Qur'an is Arabic literature la stampa vco peak. However, "faith" la stampa vco brings its own problems, and it is highly recognized by scholars since the beginning of the Qur'an. If the Qur'an is the creation of a creative peak in classical Arabic literature, is certainly not possible to understand it without understanding the overall development of Arabic literature la stampa vco at the time.
Do not we can not say that the works Renda is one of the best examples in the development of modern Indonesian literature without a good understanding of Indonesian literary garden as a whole? Therefore, la stampa vco something can be said to be "good" or "bad" or "peak" of course in relation to a particular context. No, that is not too pretentious or unsure, there is rarely anything good can be said without any connection or comparison with other things.
That's the case with the Qur'an. Say that the Qur'an is Arabic literature should peak presupposes considerable knowledge of Arabic literature gardens, especially literature "ignorant" (a term which clearly vulnerable la stampa vco to misunderstanding). That is why, a review of the literature la stampa vco of pre-Islamic Arabic (or "ignorant") is growing rapidly in Islam, to the present. Of course, the pre-Islamic Arabic literature was studied not for the sake of an end in itself, la stampa vco but to "prove" that, yes, the Qur'an is the peak of literary works.
But exactly where the paradox. If we examine the interpretations Quran, especially the Quran from a literary la stampa vco review, we will see hundreds of poems of pre-Islamic Arab scattered there. And a lot of the poems that contain themes kejenisan and eroticism. The paradox la stampa vco is that I felt the first time at the boarding school. When I study a work of interpretation, and suddenly encounter a pre-Islamic poetry "erotic", la stampa vco I wondered, how could "eroticism" like this could slip into work is intended as a sort of commentary on the Word of God elucidation.
But the interpreters of Islam can not escape from this paradox. Therefore, no other Arabic literature which could be background to explain the literary quality of the Qur'an in addition to literary ignorance. Such poems Imru'ul Qais, for example, scattered in works intended as elucidation of the word of God. Poems it contains many elements of eroticism. Classical Qur'an commentaries are not infrequently la stampa vco a kind of arena in which the poems are not entirely congruent ignorance with the "spirit" exhibited puritanical Islam freely. Islamic scholars do not regard this issue as a kind of indecency.
Once again, why are we afraid of sex? To Taufiq Ismail and his followers must be said very clearly, that a literary work is not by itself be good for discussing la stampa vco God; are not automatically bad and a "hack" just because kejenisan mention.
In fact I said, sex is "raw material" la stampa vco of the most exciting in the history of any literature. The problem is not about sex or God, but how does a writer process that theme. _________________________ Ulil RESPONSE From: Bismo DG Kusumo, Prague E-mail: bdgkusumo@volny.cz "Sexual Revolution", whatever its definition, raging and "win" in the U.S. and Western Europe in the 1960s, when in the PRC instead being preoccupied with "Cultural Revolution ". SR crashing Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 (when it had some humor in Prague complaining: la stampa vco "Fuck, old 60s, the new SR er up here!"). From this Ulil post mun