Pride in English with Reference to Al-Fadakiyah Sermon by Sayyidah Fatima Al- Zahraa (Peace be upon her): A Syntactic-Semantic Study

Abstract

Pride is an instinctive state that gives oneself value and status. It also improves one's identity. Being supported by God and closely connected to Him, one can feel the real meaning of this state. Pride is one of the Quranic concepts. The Qur'an calls upon human being to solidify the meanings of pride in his soul as so to cast humility and complaint aside.

Religiously, it is a way of taking refuge in God. The actual meaning of pride lies in following God's instructions. Actually, it is one of the ethics of Islam.

The spirit of pride is so clear in Al- Zahraa's attitudes, in which her sermon is loaded with feelings of pride and manifested in its best forms. The warm of her words resonate entirely through the history of humanity. Al- Zahraa's pride is integrated within a comprehensive reformation system and linked with the divine goal and the heavenly message. The concept of pride has been crystallized in Al-Fadakiyah Sermon theoretically and practically.

The study attempts to answer the following questions:

1. Linguistically, what are the devices used to express pride in Al-Fadakiyah Sermon?
2. Is there a contact between pride and the topics discussed in the data selected?

This paper aims at:

1. Investigating the syntactic-semantic dimensions used to express pride in the data selected.
2. Tracing back the relation between pride and topics discussed in the text above.

It is hypothesized that:

1. Sayyidah Fatima Al- Zahraa (pbuh) makes use of certain devices that denote pride in her sermon.
2. It is expected that there is a close correlation between pride and the main issues of the speech.

After analyzing the data selected, the findings of the investigation validate all the hypotheses above.