A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON MAHER ZAIN’S LYRICS AS RELATED TO THE HOLY QUR’AN VALUES Ripta Permata Nuary Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Gunung Djati ripta.permata.nuary@gmail.com Abstract The message and value can be described in the lyrics of music. To show it, the lyrics can be analyzed through their meaning by means of analysis. There are two kinds meaning, in this case; lexical meaning and contextual meaning. This paper discusses what the lexical and the contextual meanings are and how the Qur’anic verses support the lyrics of “Thank You Allah” in Maher Zain’s album. This research uses Lyon’s semantic theory to analyze the lyric. The writer tried to relate the lexical meaning and contextual meaning theory by Lyon (1983) and found the value from the lyric then took verses that related with the value. The data which have been analyzed are taken from Maher Zain’s Lyrics “Thank You Allah” Album. This qualitative research employed researcher as the key instrument to collect, analyze and interpret data. Based on the analysis, this research showed that; the lexical meaning in this research is the same as that of the meaning in the dictionary meaning, the contextual meaning in this research was adapted from the context in stanza of the lyrics itself, and the holy Qur’an values were taken from the contextual meaning thoroughly that show the aim of all lyrics then got appropriate verses that related with the value itself. This research was resulting comprehensive conclusion draws that Maher Zain’s lyric “Thank You Allah” album contains the Islamic values. Keywords: linguistic, semantics, the Holy Qur’an, value INTRODUCTION Semantics is one study that concerned about language meaning. It is one of linguistic branch. Saeed (1997:3) said: “Semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language.” Supporting Saeed, Lyons, (1995: 3) stated that “Semantics is traditionally defined as the study meaning; and this is the definition which we shall initially adopt.” In addition Campbell (2002: 7) wrote that “Semantic theory aims to account for the concepts and conceptual relationships that explain the meaningfulness of language, and thereby make possible the specification of meanings for the significant pieces of particular natural languages.” Clearly, he also explained that, “MEANING IS EVERYWHERE—in our thoughts, in our words, in our actions, in the world. Wherever we turn, it is there. Each of us crafts a life around the meaning we find, setting goals, acting and reacting according to what we take this meaning to be.” (2002: 1) KIND OF MEANING Meaning has many kinds or types. All scholars divided kind of meaning differently, but in this paper, I only took two points from kind of meaning that close related with the several problem for to analysis, such as the lexical meaning, and the contextual meaning. 1. Lexical Meaning Lyon (1995) states: Lexical meaning is a term that is equivalent with term ‘word meaning’, and it has another technical term, ‘lexeme’ is dictionary-words. The noun ‘lexeme’ is of course related to the words ‘lexical’ and ‘lexicon’ that has the same meaning as ‘vocabulary’ or ‘dictionary’. A lexeme is a lexical unit: a unit of the lexicon. Supporting Lyons, Djajasudarma said, “… adalah makna unsur-unsur bahasa sebagai lambang benda, peristiwa, dan lain-lain. Makna leksikal ini dimiliki unsur-unsur bahasa secara tersendiri, lepas dari konteks.” (Djajasudarma, 2009: 16) 2. Contextual Meaning 1