hayy in A Sentence

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    Hayy then observes the island's plants and animals.

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    Hayy realises that they are incapable of understanding.

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    But soon Hayy's constant attempts to preach irritate them.

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    But Hayy's first encounter with fear of death is when his doe-mother dies.

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    In contrast to Thomas Hobbes's view that‘man is a wolf to man', Hayy's island has no wolves.

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    In the end, Hayy returns to his island with Absal, where they enjoy a life of ecstatic contemplation unto death.

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    The two men determine that the islanders' religion is a lesser version of the Truth that Hayy discovered, shrouded in symbols and parables.

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    Whether Hayy was placed in a basket by his mother to sail through the waters of life(like Moses) or born by spontaneous generation on the island is irrelevant, Ibn Tufayl says.

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    Ibn Tufail wrote the first fictional Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan(Philosophus Autodidactus) as a response to al-Ghazali's The Incoherence of the Philosophers, and then Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a fictional novel Theologus Autodidactus as a response to Ibn Tufail's Philosophus Autodidactus.

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