@inproceedings{digilib63238,
       booktitle = {THE 31st HISKI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LITERARY LITERACY AND LOCAL WISDOM},
           title = {THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF S{\'E}HU MARADANG IN THE MAKASSARESE VERSION OF THE LONTARAQ S{\'E}HU MARADANG FROM CASUAL SEX TO INSAN KAMIL (PERFECT HUMAN BEING)},
          author = {- Mustari},
            year = {2023},
           pages = {438--467},
        keywords = {Syekh Mardan, Free Sex, Insan Kamil},
             url = {https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/63238/},
        abstract = {It is surprising to read that a character's spiritual journey to the position of human begins with
casual sex. It reads on Lontaraq S{\'e}hu Maradang (The Story of Sheikh Mardan), a classic
literary work in Makassarese that can be classified as biblical or Islamic literature. This script
contains the story of a hero's spiritual wanderings named Sheikh Mardan or Indra Jaya, who
is permanently colored by making love with women and written in the prose style of the
spoken language of a narrator. This story is important to discuss because it is used as a moral
teaching but contains deviant behavior. Does this research answer why there is a narrative of
free sex in the text of Pau-paunna Raja S{\'e}hu Maradang? This research data is taken from
The Story of Sheikh Mardan, transliterated and translated by Aburaerah Aief, published by
the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Indonesian and Regional Literature Book
Publishing Project 1981. The data collection method used is a reading and recording
technique, then selected and sorted relevant data, then analyzed and concluded. This study is
a type of qualitative-narrative research with an Islamic science approach. The conclusions of
this study are: When this work is placed essentially as a literary work, the meaning of free
sex that colors the character's spiritual journey must be interpreted with an implied meaning
because the character's religious science is gradually heading towards perfection. The four
women courted by Sheikh Mardan began with no marriage to the first two women, then
steadily married fiqh to the third woman, and inner marriage plus fiqh marriage to the fourth
woman. Sex with a recreative function must be interpreted as the pleasure of the world that
must be controlled and restored to its purity as a means of offspring.}
}