Repetition and Theme Found in Maher Zain's Song Lyrics in Relation to Islamic Values

Currently, music and song become one influential part in people’s everyday life. However, people have to be more selective in choosing the songs, especially Muslims. Songs which have Islamic and moral lessons are really suggested to be listened. People have to know the whole meaning of their favorite songs. Considering this problem, this research discusses about the songs of Maher Zain in his three famous albums. This research aims to find out the Repetition, Theme, and Islamic Values in Maher Zain’s song lyrics. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with literature study. The results answered all of the research questions, the results are: 1) Most of all Maher Zain’s song lyrics are repetitive and used various kinds of repetition, the most repetition used is Epanaphora and the least used is Diacope, 2) The theme that mostly used in Maher Zain’s song lyrics is Faith, and 3) The mostly Islamic Values contained in Maher Zain’s song lyrics is Aqeedah (Faith). Thus, all of Maher Zain’s songs are inspiring and really suggested to be listened. The songs are contained Islamic Values and described a lot about belief to the existence of Allah SWT and Prophet Muhammad SAW. In addition, all of Maher Zain’s songs can be very useful to make people realize and be better as a Muslim.