"Kebenaran dari Timur", Judul Buku Saya Selanjutnya

Seperti halnya suatu film yang ketika mendekati akhir scene-nya satu demi satu mulai memperjelas plot cerita, maka, demikian pulalah kehidupan di dunia ini. Karena bukankah ada frasa yang berbunyi "Dunia ini panggung sandiwara!", frasa yang diutarakan oleh karakter Jaques dalam karya William Shakespeare berjudul As You Like It.

All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;

Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." --- Jaques (Act II, Scene VII, lines 139-166)

 ya... ketika Allah menginspirasi manusia mengetahui budaya drama, sandiwara, dan sejenisnya, hal itu pada dasarnya adalah cara Ia memudahkan manusia mengenal esensi kehidupan di dunia ini. Ada sangat banyak "cerminan" semacam ini yang diberikan Allah agar manusia dapat lebih mudah memahami ciptaan-Nya.

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Fadly Bahari, Pare-Kediri, 10 Mei 2020