Cause and Effect Essay | Pamali by Putri Libria

Theme : Culture
Topic sentence : Pamali
Thesis statement : A folklore (Oral Culture) from sundanese

Culture is a way of life that is owned by a group of people and passed down from generation to generation. Culture consists of the language, values, religion, custom, habit, the way to communication with each other, and also includes the material objects that are common to that group or society. The word "culture" derives from a Latin "colere". Which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and nurture. Every region or place must have a culture including folklore culture or what we usually call oral culture,and what I'll explain on this occasion is the oral culture of the Sundanese,namely "pamali".What is the meaning of pamali? Did you heard about pamali?

  Pamali is a prohibition on actions or behavior that are not in accordance with the rules and this is in the form of advice given by Sundanese ancestors and there are so many of utterances or behaviors in daily activities that are prohibited. In Kampung Naga Tasikmalaya for example, there is a Leuweung Larangan or forbidden forest that this forest cannot be entered by anyone including the Kampung Naga community itself and they obey only with one word "PAMALI". Pamali has a very deep meaning for the people of Kampung Naga. The habit of this prohibition is highly upheld and obeyed by all people. The result of the word pamali is conformity, harmony, and balance between living things and the environment is maintained harmony. As in the village of Cikondang, they know the word Pamali that what applies in this community is a life guidance (Papagon Hirup) that must be obeyed and respected, this affects attitudes and behaviors in managing the environment in order to remain beautiful.

Pamali if in the context of community habits it’s only an oral term or habits of the ancients used to forbid something from being done but if in the context of religion it is contradictiory. Let’s take some example:
• Ulah cicing di lawang panto bisi nongtot jodo.The meaning is this prohibition explained that you are not allowed to stay at the door because if you do that you will not get a match.If you are muslim Please open and current people saying. Pamali not to stay at the door the real meaning of giving a lesson in the form of discipline and manners that what is done is blocking the way for others to pass through the door,then it is not polite right?. If you want to sit down then sit in the place that you should. If you want to daydream or just stay don’t make others uncomfortable with your presence.
•  Ulah neukteukan kuku peuting-peuting bisi pondok umur. They believe that doing the activity of cutting nails at night will bring disaster. In the form of illness or dying for the person who did it.When I first heard this prohibition I felt strange. How could someone’s age be determined when they finished cutting their nails?. Isn’t god who turns us on and off? as stated in soorah Al-Baqarah verse 28. The lesson we can take from nail cutting at night is danger. Yap danger! Because it could be when cutting nails doesn’t look like daytime so that it can be hurt your hand.
• Tong Rerempa maghrib-maghrib.This is an activity that is lying on your stomach. If you do this in the afternoon then your parents will die. It needs to be reiterated that death comes Anytime,anywhere, and any living thing will experience it,not only when lying down during maghrib,the purpose of anytime means that it will come at anytime whether you are walking,eating,traveling,while worshiping. Even if you take refuge in a strong fortress again. You can brood and grasp when you read soorah An-Nisa Chapter 4 Number 78

 But not all of these bans are contradictory,there are also educate and reasonable bans,like
"Ulah kaluar imah pas sareupna bisi ditewak kalong wewe". It means like you can't leave your house in the late afternoon because a creature named (kalong wewe) will take and kidnap you then you will disappear. It's very terrible right?, And as a person who experiences even often get a prohibition in the form of (pamali) from my parents,as far as I know it is done to scare children so they obey the commands that their parents say. There some sunnah which the prophet always does in the beginning of the evening. You have to bring your children in your house. During the early evening and closing the doors while call out the name Allah ta’ala. Working on these two manners is one of the efforts to protect themselves from demon and jinn and restraining children at home  when the beginning of evening time or we usually say (Maghrib) is a form of efforts to keep children from the devil who roamed at that time and to further strengthen you can read the hadits Al-Bukhari number 3304 and Muslim number 2012.

  Those are some examples that I've heard from my parents, especially my grandmother.She said that Pamali aims to make our lives more careful, alert and respectful,and mutual respect especially with older ones,it means helps us to be more civilized as well by treating others and uniquely pamali is still believed by most people till this day but we need to know as muslims who are guided by the quran we as humans, where humans are as perfect creatures. We believe in supernatural things because they do exist and have their own worlds. That does not mean we must also submit to them. Qur’an soorah An-naml chapter 27 number 65,This soorah contains about ‘’There is nothing in the sky and the earth that knows the occult except Allah” no one knows even an angel which is a special creature then what about us are just a little human? Regarding wickedness, distress, happiness, difficulty, goodness will not come except by the permission of Allah.Basically, the lesson we can take from the whole that I convey is always to be careful when we behave and talk especially when we talking with older people and that the law of causation are exists so once again be careful.

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