Berdakwah Secara Halus Menerusi Salawat Dulang

Preaching Subtly Through Salawat Dulang

Abstract

Salawat dulang is one of the Minangkabau oral literature, its genre is not kaba and its text carries the teachings of Islam. With this it seems that Minangkabau literature is not just kaba. We will discuss later that oral literature is not only in the form of lyrical prose and verse, but also poetry. There are several phenomena embodied in this genre of tray salawat. First, this literary performance is performed by reciting the text accompanied by a beat on a tray.

Salawat dulang adalah salah satu sastera lisan Minangkabau, Genrenya bukan kaba dan teksnya membawakan ajaran agama Islam. Dengan ini tampak bahawa sastera Minangkabau bukan hanya kaba. Akan kita bincangkan nanti bahawa sastera lisan bukan hanya berbentuk prosa liris dan pantun, tetapi juga syair. Terdapat beberapa fenomena yang terkandung dalam genre salawat dulang ini. Pertama, pertunjukan sastera ini dilakukan dengan mendendangkan teksnya yang diiringi dengan tabuhan pada dulang.