Ibn Tufyal writes the story of Hayy Ibn Yaqzan explaining the perspective of the soul and it’s connection to god in the religion of Islam. When reading the story, there is a purpose of what Ibn Tufyal is doing to better understand the world around him. He comes to a conclusion that there is in fact a higher being in the world, he discovers that while on an isolated island. Being isolated without any human contact or an idea of how he got there, he decides to go on a quest to find answers.
As Hayy becomes older he begins to question the surrounds and comes to a conclusion. He examined every step he took and realized that there must be some higher being controlling every outcome. Being so close to death, he realizes that something is deciding his fate, whether it was to survive or die. He starts by observing the animals and comparing the bodies of each one. Noticing that each body is composed of different types of matter, he …show more content…
Soon enough both men see each and begin to exchange not words but signs how who they are. The man teaches Hayy how to speak and asks him how he got to the island and about his life. Both begin the mediation to become a perfect souls and worshiping God. Both conclude that the way to reach a connection with higher being is isolation and mediation.
The connection between both hayy’s finding and the Islamic teaching is the need to please the perfect creator which is Allah (swt) and to understand how to become the perfect soul. When Hayy realizes that, to reach the truth you need to feel sadness, death and there is a need to know the reason why he was put on this earth. He has a better understanding about the higher being. He realizes that every human on earth was put here for a reason, without an ultimate reason of living to worship God then you are living for nothing. We weren’t just put on earth to create