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Love can be used as an answer to the question of human existence. So many philosophers from the west and east offer concepts about love, Erich Fromm is one of them who considers that love is an art. The purpose of this study is to classify five objects of love from Erich Fromm's thoughts in poems by W.S Rendra. Poetry was chosen as the object of research because poetry can be used as a means for someone to express love. This research method is a literature study as well as a literature review. The results of this study are five titles of poems that represent the five objects of love. First, object of brotherly love entitled "Aku Mendengar Suara" because this poem contains Rendra who loves his oppressed brothers. The object of maternal love titled "Ibunda" contains a mother's love that is like the earth that provides its fertility for her children to grow and sacrifices everything a mother has for her children, truly loving even though she does not get anything from the child. The object of erotic love with the title "Barangkali Karena Bulan" is about exclusive love to one person, namely the poet's love for a woman. Self-love with the poem titled "Orang Biasa" contains Rendra's love for himself. Last, the object of God's love titled "Tuhan, Aku Cinta Padamu" is about Rendra's desire to return to Him and achieve unification between the servant and his God.

The research seeks to reveal the perspective of the truth about God, is library research with a philosophical inquiry approach. Primary data sources are from the Al-Qur'an and hadith, strengthened by secondary data from other literature, then analyzed for interpretation, comparison and reflection. The research resulted in the conclusion: Proving the truth of God is not only a topic of discussion for Western philosophers, but also Muslim philosophers and theologians, such as Muslim philosophers and theologians who were followers of the Mu'tazilah and al-Ash'ariyah. This proof is divided into two propositions, First, Argument a novitate mundi (dalil al-huduts), which emphasizes the temporality of the universe, and has actually been used popularly by Muslim theologians with a general procedure, proving the temporality of the universe, second, the postulate of possibility (dalil al-imkan), focuses on arguments from contingency. These two proofs confirm that God is real. In this way, the thoughts of Muslim philosophers increasingly strengthen the existence of the reality of God. After the formula for the nature of salbiyah is applied to all Gods, it can be seen that all Gods are void Gods, except Allah SWT who is true.  

Mantras in some traditions and cultures are closely related to the values of spirituality and religiosity. Mantras can be used as a vehicle to pray and desire in the hope that they can be granted by God. Asihan becomes one type of mantra that has the function of getting the affection of the intended person. Asihan has magical powers that are suggestive that make spell pronunciation have charisma and the power to attract the attention of others. This article aims to describe the structure, context of speech, creation process, and function of the asihan. The method used in this article is descriptive-qualitative by placing text analysis as the object of research. In addition, it is also analyzed the context of mantra speech related to the practice that is a condition of obtaining the power of the mantra. The results showed that the structure of the mantra of asihan from the use of language, compounds, and themes with isotopic analysis has a relationship with the form of belief in God. Meanwhile, the context of speech and the process of creation describes the process of pronouncing mantras and practices that must be fulfilled by spell pronunciation, while the function shows the functional usefulness of mantras by spell pronunciation.