The Princess of Pawah Dewi Sulasikin part 1

Asmaradana

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Who can answer/the questions from the Princess of Pawah/will be her husband/and there’s a king/a king of Baratmadya/and then the king said,/”you the beautiful woman,”//

2

“That’s why I’m here now/I want to meet you/first, walk by your own desire/second, know something essential/you, the Princess/many kings want you/but you still on your place”//

3

“Is there invisible sphere inside you?/why woman still stand alone”/then the Princess Dyah Sulasikin answered,/”My king,/there is no place in this world/when a woman don’t like a man/but I just want to know about something”//

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Then the King Bardangin also said,/”what do you want, princess/the eternal luxury?/or something else?/come and grab all”/Dewi Sulasikin answered/”But I don’t want the luxury or wealth, my king”//

5

“I want something simple/not luxury or wealth/but only the nature of a woman/’cause if I get married/luxury and wealth will be useless/but if I don’t know/the nature of woman”//

6

“I have bored/many men wanted me/I don’t mind even if I will alone in this world/but I still don’t know/the nature of a woman/whoever can teach it/to me”//

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“I will never choose/is he a king/or a wanderer/santri* or haji*/please tell me/even if he just poor man/if he can teach me/I will ready”//

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Then King Bardangin said/and laughed,/”it’s very easy, Princess/your appeal,”/he continued, ”for man/will be better to die/if he doesn’t have a wife”//

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Then Dewi Sulasikin opened the cover between her and the King/and the King saw her clearly/right in front his eyes/like an angel from the Eden/named Ni Dewi Sulasikin the Pricenss of Pawah/the Queen of all the beauty/slowly the brightness turn to dreary//

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The King of Bardangin Amat Ngapiyah saw her/and said in his heart/he wanted to be her husband, then he said,/”Princess, the nature of a woman/is the twenty qualities/that’s the woman”//

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All Bardangins whispered each another,/”Amat Ngapiyah answer/all happy in their heart/like the old lion/and all will applause/like the fighting-cock”/then Amat Ngapiyah continued,//

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“The twenty qualities, princess/is the being,”/Ni Sulasikin said,/”which prince that exist?”/then answered by Amat Ngapiyah,/”that exist is/the nature of the desire”//

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 All the Bardangins/applause and happy/and the king said slowly,/”the first kidam is,”/but said Dewi Sulasikin,/”what is the first?/which immortal and constant”//

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She said,/”I want to know/what is the immortal?”/and the king said,/”that’s Allah, Princess/the immortal, the beginning, and the end/and can’t broke”//

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Dewi Sulasikin said,/”I want to know/what’s the color of the immortal?”/the King shocked,/and all the servants of Pawah/applause like the fighting-cock arena/the pupil of Baratmadya was embarrassed//

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The king turned silent/while the Pawah’s were happy/the king said slowly,/”dear, Princess, Allah/can’t be mentioned just anyone/not man or woman/and doesn’t have a country”//

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Dewi Sulasikin now silent/while the Bardangins were applause and happy/his pupil Amat Ngapiyah/then the beautiful princess said,/”if doesn’t country/it must be mentioned?/or called siluman*?”//

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Amat Ngapiyah was hushed/the Pawahs were cheering/the princess said slowly,/”how about bet?/my people/and who win later/follow me as your princess”//

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Amat Ngapiyah said,/”if you want to know/be like Him/unrule/if there are two or three Allah/the people of Pawah will infidel”//

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All Bardangins people/cheered like in the fighting-cock ground/and also the applause/then answered by the princess,/”that’s true, my king/there’s no two or three/but there exist”//

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All pupils of Bardangin/cheered and/applause again and again/Ni Sulasikin said,/”that’s true, my  king/and what about the infidel?/what are their mistakes?”//

The History of Mangir* part 1

1

The Serene Earth*

Dhandhanggula

Said the peaceful land/there’s the story that everlasting for generations/and it can be read/from the past event/about the chaos/in Majapahit*/that many people moved/include the King’s sons/left the town into the deepest forest/and hided in the mountain/they’re maneges*//

Raden Almebu Misani*/after his journey from Majalengka*/certainty continue the journey/to the west/descend to the ravine, ascend to the mountain/rest inside the quiet cave/for long time/just with his son/suffered for long time, night and day/less-eat and less-sleep//

After his arrival to Ponorogo*/he met with his big brother/named Bathara Katong*/who has become a Moslem/Raden Lembumisani* sympathize/what Islam is/he stayed for a while/then walked to the forest/he asked his only one son/a very handsome boy//

A boy named Raden Wanabaya*/inherited the characteristics of his father/always close with his father/walked all day and night/less-eat and less-sleep/make their heart more tenacious/until to the Gunung Kidul*/there’s a village called Dhander*/stayed there for long time/pray to the God//

Never stop pray/to the God/about the deep-request of his life/he hoped that he got fortune/to be King in Java Island/then he stand-sleep/after he prayed everyday/which need big sovereignty/at the time, Raden Alembu Misani/moksa*//

Then the story goes to his son/Raden Wanabaya/who left by his parents/felt lonely in whole day/then he walked down the mountain/he left Dhander/walked abreast the seashore/he suffered/and arrived in Langse*/then he come in and meditate there//

Said that one day/at the time when the sun is right on top/he heard a mysterious voice/”My son, Wanabaya/better you left this place/go to northwest/to a place called Mangir*/meditate there, and back to the holy faith/and make the farm”//

The voice wasn’t done yet, “build a farm in the riverside of Progo* River/take care of the farm/be sure that there’ll be your generation/reach the glory there/with the great weapon/no one of arbiter/will war against you/’cause the weapon is unexplained”/Raden Wanabaya woke up already/and try to understand his ancestor’s voice//

In the next day early morning he left/from the cave into the seashore/he heard the wave sound/he starred the wide ocean/he starred and slowly walked/left the seashore and ocean/while water make his clothes wet/he move forward/and arrived to the place called Parang Tigan*//

He spoke slow/with someone he met/he heard inside his heart/then he starred the ocean/with the very huge waves/with the hard sound/jumegar gumuruh*/became heart healer from loneliness/he came to a place named Parang Tritis*/then he take a meditation//

Then Raden Wanabaya*/was only silent and quiet/until the sun went high/he left that place/walked slowly harrow the street/many things he saw/the contents of the ocean/until he arrived in Parang Wedang*/he stayed for a while/then moved again to the Parangkusumo*//

He continued his journey/to a place named Mancingan*/he waited his journey/then he walked to the path where the sunset placed/slowly walked/find a village where crossed by a river, Opak*/then the next seven days/he walked straight to the west/to an unknown stretch//

Then arrived at the riverside of Progo*/he stepped bravely/then asked for sign to God/to guide him/then Raden Jaka walked/alone to the north, slowly/and carefully his step/until arrived in the way to the Mangir/then he started his hassle//

Then he lived there for long time/has good relationship with neighbors/in the four brothers-five center*/throughout Progo River/many people came to Mangir then/until for while/Mangir became big village/about a thousand people/live in Mangir/and served for the village upturn//

Then Raden Jaka has a wife/a daughter’s wanderer/from a place called Juwana*/that found the peace in Mangir/they lived in northwest side from Mangir/so it called then/Juwana village/then met with the arbiter/named Ki Ageng Mangir*/or known as Ki Ageng Mangir Wonoboyo*//

Long time after/Ki Ageng Mangir has a son/a gorgeous child/after he grown-up/he was introduced with a young woman/Ki Paker’s* daughter/they’re married then/they’re happy/and it heard by Kanjeng Susunan*//

So there was hearsay/that Ki Ageng Wonoboyo/wanted to learn the knowledge/but he’s got no one guru/then Jeng Susunan came/but he covered his real identity/and came just walked/when Ki Ageng Mangir/was on his endeavor//

He stopped his endeavor/cope the land/and when all was finished/and when the day getting cloudy/waited/for a moment/until the rhyme reached five*/at the outside gate/and inward gate/reached two*//

And when the great guest arrived/named Demang Rangga/the rhyme was getting loud/and said that the vicar/Sunan Adi rest for moment/in Mangir/a man who wore black dhestar*/and wore green clothes/a dagger in his womb/sat near big stone//

Without any friends Jeng Sunan came/sat and no one say hello/just follow his heart/sat at the corner/slowly heard the song Mijil*/with the pleasant rhythm/the singer sang well/until it came/when the guests were asked to eat/and he’s the one who still on this place//

Ki Ageng Mangir saw/that one of his guest still sat/then slowly walked into him/and said, “Please, join us”/then Jeng Susunan said thank/and ate/until one of the beverage near to the end/and all guests were saw him/when he ate//

After all over/all guests gave some gifts/three packs of each/and prayed him/they say, “I praying you/hope you get godsend/from the God”/then Ki Ageng thanked them/and will remember/Ki Ageng also prayed them/and asked to the unknown man//

“Where do you live?/and who is your name?/I don’t know about you”/then he answered/”my name is Ki Dulrajak*/live in Somatingal*/Ki Ageng said, “now better you leave this place/I ask you to leave”/without said anything he left/ escaped from that place//

And when all has over/no one seen there/Jeng Susunan changed his clothes/together with all the guests he came/to the great ceremony demang*/his clothes make people amazed/adorned with gold-plated/with the gilded belt/he wore velvet clothes/and rode the gold-cart//

Garnished with the first class/in all whole body/and all his paraphernalia/even the dagger/also decorated with gold/in the sheath/glittering/accompanied with several men/that brought the flags/and rode the horses//

The guardian then left/and people whispered each other/and one of them then said/heard that, Ki Ageng want to saw him/with all his guests/and the rhyme started to sounding/very loud/all there was shocked/when they saw the glittering-person/and asked to sat//

After the unknown man sat/in the north side, rather in the center/then the provisions came/Ki Ageng pleased them/after all eatables were done/”please, enjoy this night” said Ki Ageng/but he came close to the unknown man, and asked/”where do you live?/and who are you?”//


(English Translation by Mahisa Medari)

Manuscript of Welfare and Prosperity part 2

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Remember forbidden things/remember the rules/don’t you forgot/things that be prohibited by Rasul*/threw it into outlying place/it will be goodness for you/not the destiny from God/placed into right place/that’s human who loved God//

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Just remember/to the God’s “face”/from the wahyu*/the dalil of walahu*/pan kalaka fi samawati*/that God creates/started from the sky/then the earth with all creatures/ wajibul wujud*/no time no place//

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And if someone said/that God was situation/or live in a place/that’s really incorrect/must restarted from the beginning*/’cause the man didn’t believed in God/murtad*/’cause the man was compared the God/and if anyone compares the God with anything else/they will be suffered//

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Sifat Kidam* was sacred/not true if Adam* came first/huwal awalul*, said/and also wal akhiru*/no one left/dalil sifat baka*/the Eternal God/kuluman ngalaiha*/every things/fasnis* was disappear//

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Wayabka* and still Holy/ wajhu rabika dza*/dul jalali wal ikrami*/the Lofty and the Great/ mukalafah lil kawadisi*/means different with all new/this the dalil*/and the wahdaniyah*/just one, nothing can be compared/just one//

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Kodrat*/God rules all in universe/it’s been showed/innallaha*/originally is the Holiest/ alakuli sai’an*/kadir lajoni*/of everything/each of things/complete can’t be avoided//

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The iradat*/God has will/Fa aluli mayuri/the God has made/everything/the knowledge of God/watch this/ kyaluhu inallaha*/alakuli saiin alim*/means the real God//

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To all entities/its known/hayat*/ watawa kalahu*/alal khaliyamutu*/the life cannot die/’cause of God/sama*/inallaha sami’un alim*/able to hear and see//

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The dalil* of basar* is/ walahu datawi Allah*/bima ta’malun basir*/see everything/but not using the eye/the dalil of kalam*/this is the last/wakalamallahu Musa*/taklimana* God has spoken/to the Musa//

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God was saying/to the prophet and said/if confuse/everything will hard to reach/it has dangerous vague/to the world/small world and wide world/pray to the God/keep the heart still stand don’t fear/keep your body//

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So say to your heart, then/that the mercy of God will come/He will come/with the knowledge/if you already solid/not much bubbling/the main of knowledge/that’s the importance/mainly for yourself/say apologize//

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Aware of your sins/never prayed/to the God the Creator/regret/to yourself/be the God’s servant/don’t be like the author/always feel brave/feel like the man of letters//

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Originally, it was fool/no beauty on writing/’cause less tenet/less of knowledge/not understand about Kawi*/’cause just anyone/feel huge/’cause composed the Dhandhanggula*/though sneered/by others//

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Moreover, writing without/pray to the God/act the immoral things/enjoy of all time, night and day/never act good things/too much arrogant/the hope is/may it happen that God will/forgive all mistakes//

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All the wrong mindset/hope God will change/with the goodness/Almighty God/duh tuanku rabul alamin*/your servant’s pray/to God/hope that/we have good heart/that’s our pray, o, the Compassionate God//

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Man walatu ansir*/the humans’ request/hope You ease everything/to our heart/guide us to the right path/like the contemptible/that’s so easy/and hopefully/we get the Prophet’s bless/until the writer//

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The writer wishes/the bless from the Prophets/and their comrades/and from Waliyullah*/that able to see something covered/though bad in writing/but their minds/never break the God’s rules/wish the God forgive/who knows?//

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But the writer worries/’cause the immoral/it near to the end/how’s the future?/if God never forgive us?/only suffer/o, Almighty God/wish Allah* forgive us/of our sins/we prays to you, God//

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No one will help/the rebellious humans/like us/but we still pray to All-Loving God/with His Lim*/wish God granting/like written/in Al-Quran/innalalaha fa yakbilu tawadabati*/Allah receive all the humans’ repent and forswear//

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That’s the writer’s grip/but without certainty/’cause certainty just only God’s/how if our repent and forswear not accepted?/’cause too much sins?/just wait God’s mercy/excess/syafaat* from Prophets/hadist* attainbu min danbi*/kamala and balaha//

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Forswear from sins/like person who none-ink paper/that’s the Prophet said/the big grip/dalil* and hadist of God commands/believe that, my fellows!/you’ll get disadvantage if not/so find it!/learn dalil and hadist/beside the knowledge//

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If already recognize the knowledge/increase your good attitude/don’t be science-seeker/science will useless if just for self/that’s less-good/but attitude without knowledge/that’s also less-worthy/it’ll make you blind/be careful/don’t think everything is easy//

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Already explained in anisal utakin*/how much human have good attitude/it’ll be dispatched/and how much the knowledge/it useless/’cause they keep it just for themselves/so that bookish people/will be dispatched/so it must be known/that knowledge have to deeded//

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Perfect wisdom and good habit/how luck if you have them/if they meet/patience and honest/pray, tafakur* and dzikir*/if that so/makrifat Tuhan Yang Maha Agung*/that’s the top of habit/like the sufi*/who’ve been opened//

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The path of human who near with God/always remember God/less-sleep and less-eat/avoid the mistakes/avoid that/walk/just walk to the right-path/the great way/dalil from Al-Qur’an and hadist/also ijmak*//

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Commands from hadist and dalil/the commands within/don’t think it’ll easy/it can make you unlucky/until the end/and be slanderous gossip/accused bad thing/learn carefully!/learn carefully//

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Throw away the bad- preconception/throw the jealous feeling/don’t hurt others/don’t backbite/ujub* riya* kibir*/that’s heart-disease/takabur*/don’t announce others’ shame/be modest/don’t humiliate others//

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People who like humiliate others/shows the folly/less-knowledge/and my message for you/don’t be something abuse, my child/love everything/don’t see/to the others’ thing/’cause it’ll make jealous/don’t be surprised of everything//

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It’ll bring to the envy/and always feel not enough of everything/of God’s gift/never thank to the God/makes heart restless/makes greedy/mislead the mind/tell the main-person story/who enjoyed the ketauhidan*/nothing will be enjoyed//

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Don’t care about everything/avoid praising and reproaching/mostly reproaching God/forget the proprietary/the faith of good and bad/that’s God’s fate/when still at lokil makpul*/don’t feel weird about others/just amazed to the God/’cause the authority//

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He keeps everything/make the sun still burning/and radiate/stars on the sky/waft without pillars/waft without hanger/but not fall/the very wide-sky without tower of strength/makes briny ocean’s water/that’s something admiration//

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So no one will be frightened/except Allah, the one and only God of this universe/all creatures/no one will endanger/all the same/even at the same place/though it’s heaven or hell/that’s still Khawadis*/all rules will broke//

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That’s what wise man said/who reach ma’rifat*/it’s like that/not much like to the big-paradise/not frighten to the hell/no one will be seen/except the God/that’s people who missed the God/knowledge and charity has fused into one/moved into the vision//

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The vision won’t change/going nowhere/just spotted on foresight/see what to be see/good attitude, good habit/confuse on the vision/the unseen vision/kind, honest/that’s human who has/formed as the real human//

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Ended with Dhandhanggula*/the will of Raden Arya Kusuma/will end here/there’s no continuation/if you can accept this/like pudhak cengkar*/kayon pinggir laut*/if I explain to you/it’ll useless bubbling/confuse, that’s what I want//

(English Translation by Mahisa Medari)

Note:

The Manuscript of Welfare and Prosperity; the original title is “Serat Basuki and Raharja” (Javanese language). It composed by unknown writer. As other ancient Javanese literary works, it uses Mocopat (singing poetry), with Dhandhanggula arrangement. This manuscript tells about the way to be better people, with stressing on spiritual aspect. Hopefully, everyone who reads this manuscript can aware that humans are contains of physical and spiritual form. Physical is limited, but human spiritual is unlimited.

Besides that, it also tells about God and His characteristics (in Muslims’ believe, God has 99 names), but actually God is unexplained, because the humans’ knowledge can’t reach the God. But, the 99 names can be used to strengthen the humans’ believe and remind about God. Wallahu’alam Bishowab (Only God know the truth).

Manuscript of Welfare and Prosperity* part 1

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Described sweetly/by the sweetness of words and melody/the compounding of/Arab and Java/They couldn’t be separated/they walked aside/arm in arm/if one was parted/failed to omitted the rule of the country/and the country was strong//

2

The strength of country was too frighten/so the strength of a law must be preserved/kept all the decrees/so will be strong/guarding the earth’s harms/if that so, better/be obedient to the rule/apply the rule country/it will be better if they’re in one/welfare and prosperity//

3

This was the author’s will/happy with glittering heart/shared the feel and mind/stupid mind of mankind/just for self-vanity/a confuse-mankind/knowledge-blind/contravened the precept and advices/so the law, make a tragedy/chaos, depraved, and suffered//

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Wreck at will/unwary of the death/too much worried/said there was a good people/blessed and good hearted/walked on a way/a way to the grandeur/patient and bestowed/with all of heart and soul/wrought out the glittering heart//

5

But it makes strongly/to the whole physique/covered by the kindness/rare to be unlucky/bliss and happily that be found/grandeur, too/later knew as lucky person/full of welfare/with a good character/started all with exhilaration//

6

The heart power was able to restrain/all bad will/close to the true/stayed away for the bad-pleasure/like to take the not-good heart/better you pray/to the God/praise the God/’cause He will accede the humans’ request/He will accept if you completely wish//

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On the Book of Sipatul Nguleki*/there were signs of shabby person/on the body/on words and behavior/the true good person is/when on a calamity/on human frame/will answer with the good/like to give the gift for others/forgiving the mistake//

8

The beginning was good behavior/second was stable heart/that made good on human/and recognize who they are/respect to the older people/has good behavior/to the family/while the third sign/that man love on good behavior/warded off the bad behavior//

9

The fourth sign was kind/can received the advice was the fifth/do as the spoken words/with the knowledge/the sixth was berdzikir*/often said istighfar*/evoke that everything life/will die someday/the seventh sign was considered that the suffering/wasn’t different with godsend//

10

Soon the pins were disappeared/’cause it covered by defenselessness/and descent personality/that all the seven signs/bad-behavior like demon/also has seven signs/first was like to bedeviled/spoke useless words/also has bad-habit//

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The second was conceited/hated to the confraternity/and to the people under them/while the third/ignored the norm/fourth/was avenger/fifth like to disturbed others/and the sixth was loved to prevented the good things/and the seventh was//

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Impatient to the death/and all the seven signs/will be great danger/feel to the deep-heart/to the words spoken/if you can/pertain the advice/seven signs of good behavior above/that was the way to God/and to the godsend//

13

The decency of this behavior/finish all situations/choose the best one/leave the ruthless/hold to the real-truth/don’t turn away/so that stronger/leave the ruthless/’cause ruthless was far from rightness/better the prosperous//

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Still remember even joyful close to you/be careful of bad-heart/it’ll make your heart always clear/ viciousness on an opinion/while the bookish opinion/will give value/to that figure/the awareness of shepherd/means that, eternal under the hell/never remember the death//

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Be careful/hard to make the knowledge keep calm/hold tight to the dalil*/and also Hadis Nabi*/be thorough/to all the messengers/whole situations/on what reported/that report was never true/the truest was from God//

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While the knowledge taken place/just will be found a term/never found the form/the form was only/found on the deepest heart/while heart just only entrusted good/it blurry/unreal/if that so, people will be afraid/impossible//

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People with opened-knowledge/have no beloved/only remember God/keeps all in a good way/ persistent to worship to the God/never gone before/the God’s fate/have no power/just be grateful/that’s real will//

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Though similar with everything/the glory still uncertainty/except just defenselessness to the Creator/only before/what’s the sense/if you’ve been opened/you must be confuse about this confusing mechanisms/confuse of all existed//

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This is real deep confuse, my son/’cause of the deep itikat*/don’t you careless/if you want to do/the good things/it may you will/get opened-mind/it only possibility/but, better you do it/on a gift/and God’s way//

20

Stable your will/and hold your desire/tafakur* and always awaken/don’t be arrogant/and show off/threw as far as you can/four desires/that’s heart’s temptation/and hard to be threw/’cause always adhere on each human//

21

It’ll hamper the secretive/from the Book of Sipatul Ngukala*/that’s great barrier, friend/better do this/be philanthropist/don’t be rasp/make you infidel/hard to receive the death/’cause followed by wealth/it’ll make pins//

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Death-test was very hard/pain/rounded feeling/fever and confuses/danger/parents feel confuse/but can do nothing/be careful, friend/so you’ll understand bout death/keep it in your heart//

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Organize with heart/make good organization/so that glittering heart/if it’s clearly opened/death was the goal/place it carefully/watch your vision/see God/remove all the deterrent/and get the eternally//

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The way to the death/was not easy/need hard requests/prepare the perfect-knowledge/remember of day and night/hold out of desire/don’t be greedy/remove the anger-spirit/remember the good and be good person/destroy the three-desire//

25

Kindness was useless if/you still an anger/betrayer/let loose the desire/avaricious/ire person/let loose of sexual desire/that’s all the bad-things on human/become more ruthless/’cause the good has been covered//

26

Petition makes fail to recall/strain them/seriously/there’s a way/shattered and broken/ wear and tear the sword/which called knowledge/and heart’s arrow/and remember at war/evil will disappeared//

27

But, there’s another great weapon/don’t you like others’ have/that’s forbidden/the generation of a thief/God will never bless them/the slander’s generation/will be miserable forever/while for the patient/they will get windfall/and another pleasure//

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Good behavior/guides to the worth/and that’s great godsend/godsend was wahyu*/blessed gift/from the Greatest/thanked to the God/for the blessing/the God’s gift/that’s called rahmat*//

29

Rahmat creates memory/memory builds philosophize*/a knowledge of a God/The Enormous God/no one equal with Him/impossible!/the one and the only God/ Jamal* of his attribute/also Kahar*/that controlled this universe//

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Remember, you!/the twenty personalities/find the deepest-meaning/this is a must/for Muslims/’cause if you don’t/you will shattered/find this, wujud kidam baka*/mukalafah lil kawadisi*/kiyamuhu binafsihi*//

31

Wahdaniyat kodrat irodat*/ilmu kayat sama basar*/also qodiran* and mudiran*/aliman* and kayan*/sami’an* and basiran*, too/and mutakaliman*/all complete now/the twenty personalities/the original of form/originally unformed//

32

Form is only the Holiest/no more extended/the beginning and the end/means, the word /these all will deprave/only one left/The Greatest God/Great means great/great means nothing equal/men or women//

33

God will protect all creatures/the six evils/all was protected/some said/johar* and jisim*/and another said/God is upper/that’s not true/God created the universe/God can’t be described//

34

Can’t be imagined even in heart/all forms like anything/they are entities/all goodness are sacred/ranged inside the heart/all was ijad*/not God the Great/humans’ mind can’t reach/we have to loving the God/and wishes of His godsend//

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If got the God’s help/it’ll can’t be matched/within the fate/but if you will/know the truth/think before you did something/keep on the big way/follow the Kitab* way/that is tasawuf*/remember the path//

Kidung Rumekso ing Wengi: Prayer on a Spell

Ana kidung rumekso ing wengi/teguh hayu luputa ing lara/luputa ing bilahi kabeh/jim setan datan purun/paneluhan tan ana wani/miwah panggawe ala/gunane wong luput/geni atemahan tirta/maling adoh tan ana ngarah mring kami/guna duduk pan sirna//

Sakehing lara pan samya bali/sakeh ngama tan sami miruda/welas asih pandulune/sakehing braja luput/kadi kapuk tiba neng wesi/sakehing wisa tawa/sato galak tutut/kayu aeng lemah sangar/ronging landhak guwaning wong lemah miring/myang pakiponing merak//

Pagupakaning warak sakalir/nadyan arca myang segara asat/temahan rahayu kabeh/apan sarira ayu/ingideran kang widadari/rineksa malaekat/lan sagung pra Rasul/pinayungan ing Hyang Suksma/ati Adam utekku Baginda Esis/pangucapku ya Musa//

Napasku Nabi Ngisa linuwih/Nabi Yakub pamiryarsaningwang/Dawud swaraku mangke/Nabi Brahim nyawaku/Nabi Sleman kasekten mami/Nabi Yusup rupeng wang/Edris ing rambutku/Baginda Ngali kuliting wang/Abu bakar getih daging Ngumar singgih/balung Baginda Ngusma//

Sungsumingsun Patimah linuwih/Siti Aminah bayuning angga/Ayup ing ususku mangke/Nabi Nuh ing jejantung/Nabi Yunus ing otot mami/Netraku ya Muhammad/Pamuluku Rasul/Pinayungan Adam Kawa/Sampu pepak sakathahe para Nabi/Dadya sarira tunggal//

English Translation

There is a night apron/it strengthen, releasing from all illness/and all the tribulation/Genies, Satan won’t be able/nor the magic/moreover, all crimes/magic-spell won’t came near/fire turn into water/thieves keep away from me/all peril will sheering off me//

All illness, back to your origin/infections will step aside/with the love-vision/weapons will missing/like barn fell on the iron/poisons are feeble/all wilds turn tame/miraculous tree, eerie land/the cave of hedgehog, human’s cave, aslant land/the nest of peacock//

All the rhino’s pens/even though stones and oceans running dry/in the end all will be blessed/ framed by goddess/guarded by angels/and all Rasul*/under God’s shield/my heart is Adam*, my brain is Sis*/my statement is Musa*//

My breath is Isa* the great/my hearing is Yakub*/Daud* become my voice/Sulaiman* become my divine power/my face is Yusuf*/Idris* on my hair/Ali* is my skin/Abu Bakar* on my blood, Umar* be my flesh/Usman* become my bones//

My marrow is Fatimah* the lofty/Siti Aminah* as my power/Ayub* on my guts/Nuh* on my heart/Yunus* on my sway/my eyes is Muhammad*/rasul is my face/under the patronage of Adam and Hawa*/all the Rasul/become one on me//

[English Translation by Mahisa Medari]

Note:

Rasul                : holy person in Moslems’ belief

Adam               : first human, the father of all human in whole world

Sis                    : on of holy person after Adam. Popular in Javanese people

Musa                : Moses

Isa                    : Jesus

Ya’kub              : Jacob, Son of Ishak of Abraham

Daud                : David, who fought against Jalut (Goliath)

Sulaiman          : King Solomon

Yusuf               : Joseph, son of Jacob

Idris                 : holy person right after Adam

Ali             : Ali ibn-Abi Thalib, last leader after Usman. Also became the husband of Fatimah, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Abu Bakar        : Abu Bakar ash-Shiddiq, first Moslems’ leader after the dead of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Umar                : Umar ibn-Khattab, second leader after Abu Bakar

Usman              : Usman ibn-Affan, third leader after Umar

Fatimah            : Fatimah az-Zahra, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Siti Aminah      : one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives

Ayub                : Ayyub

Nuh                  : Noah

Yunus               : Jones

Muhammad      : Prophet Muhammad SAW, the last prophet in Moslems’ belief

Hawa                : Eve