The Truth of Redemption and Purification in Islam as Exposed in What I’ve Done Song by Linkin Park

Abstract

Most of Linkin Park’s songs and albums raise the singer’s or someone’s past as well as regrets and disappointment
over him or her in the past. This article brings up one of Linkin Park’s song What I’ve Done as the song describes a person’s
regret for his bad past and then trying to find redemption for his mistakes in the past. Now, how are redemption and
purification exposed through someone’s deep apology of his past? Using qualitative methods by listening, quoting, and
analyzing written sources, the paper writers would like to explain and to dissect how a person seeks redemption for all the
mistakes he has made and then purifies himself so that he or she does not make the same mistakes anymore. The idea of
redemption is in line with wide Islamic meanings in saying phrase of istighfar. The matter of purification finds its
resemblance with concept of taharah in which people should be pure both physically and spiritually to pray before God
himself. In conclusion, the idea of redemption and purification shows closed relations with religious perspective in literature.
This is meant to reach God as the highest purpose and essence above all who could grant redemption and purity toward
human beings