The Awakening of the Soul

by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

THE THIRD SEPTENARY

• [Hayy makes himself clothes and shoes of the skins of animals], 42
• [Hayy learns to ride], 43
• [Hayy examines the nature of bodies], 44
• [Hayy transfers his thoughts to the heavenly bodies], 46

THE FOURTH SEPTENARY

• [Hayy ponders over heaven and stars], 47
• [Hayy finds that the body of heaven is finite], 47
• [Hayy contemplates sun, moon, and stars], 48
• [Hayy concludes that the heaven is of a spherical figure], 48
• [Hayy ponders over the creation of the world], 50
• [Hayy concludes that the world must have a Creator without bodily substance], 51
• [Hayy admires the work of the Creator], 56

FIFTH SEPTENARY

• [Hayy is completely taken up with the contemplation of the superior intellectual world], 58
• [Hayy examines all his senses and faculties], 58

• [Hayy Returns to the Sensible World] 63

SEVENTH SEPTENARY

• [Asal and Salaman appear on the scene], 65
• [Nature and character of Asal and Salaman], 66
• [Further differences of Asal and Salaman], 66
• [Asal repairs to Hayy’s Island], 67
• [Hayy and Asal meet], 69
• [Hayy catches hold of Asal], 70
• [Hayy and Asal stroke one another], 71
• [Hayy and Asal try to understand each other], 71
• [Asal makes Hayy eat of his food], 72
• [Hayy Ibn Yokdhan at last joins Asal at dinner, but repents afterwards], 72
• [Asal becomes Hayy’s companion and teacher], 73
• [Hayy enlightens Asal on his inner life], 74
• [Asal tells Hayy of the Island from whence he had come], 75
• [Hayy observes that men are dull, stupid, and brutish], 78
• [Asal persuades Hayy to follow him to his Island], 79
• [Hayy and Asal return together to Asal’s Island], 79
• [Hayy begins to teach and instruct Salaman’s subjects], 80
• [Hayy despairs of being able to reform the vulgar crowd], 81
• [Hayy’s philosophical views on the value of this world], 81
• [Hayy gives up his preachings and teachings], 84
• [Asal and Hayy return to their Island], 85
• [Epilogue of the Author], 86

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