Paper Title
The Bipolarity of Culture and Civilization in the Short Story “ParompaSadunKiriman Ibu”: A Bipolar Unity Study of AlijaIjetbegovic

Abstract
Hasan Al-Banna, in the short story ParompaSadunKiriman Ibu, portrays the dilemma faced by Lamrina, the protagonist caught in the social pressures and expectations of her family. As a wife and mother, Lamrina should feel joy with the birth of her second child. However, this happiness is overshadowed by guilt for giving birth to a daughter rather than a son, as her mother had hoped. Lamrina’s father died when she was still very young, and her mother, who firmly upheld the marsaraktumbilang tradition—a custom that forbids widowed women from remarrying—relied on Lamrina to produce a male heir. Ironically, her mother passed away before this expectation could be fulfilled. Lamrina's inner turmoil reflects a cultural drama that clashes with the realities of her life. If humans rely solely on utopias, civilization, science, and reason, they can never fully realize their humanity. People possess inherent moral, religious, and spiritual qualities that cannot be ignored. Alija Izetbegovic offers a middle path of bipolarity, uniting reason and spirituality as two inseparable facets of humanity. In this short story’s cultural and real-world conflict, Lamrina’s husband ultimately decides that theparompasadun—a ceremonial cloth bearing the male name DoliHasian—be used for Lamrina's daughter, symbolizing a compromise between tradition and reality. Keywords - Bipolarity, Marsarak Tumbilang Tradition, Culture Conflict, ParompaSadun, Bipolar Unity.