For instance, when Ibn Tufayl examines the Prophet’s words “I am the ears He hears by and the sight He sees by” and continues with “Hayy found himself a burning desire to know Him more fully” Ibn Tufayl demonstrates how human curiosity can be formed out of understanding the universe, which in this case was prompted by a religious phrase (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page 127-128). This also sparks Hayy’s curiosity to examine the heavenly bodies (planets) as shown by “Hayy left behind all these things and turned his mind to the heavenly bodies. He reached this level at twenty eight, having completed four seven-year phases in his development” (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page 128). With this in mind, Ibn Tufayl establishes that Hayy’s curiosity has no bounds since he is now studying the sky with accuracy, and by extension this suggests that humans have the same capability. Lastly, when Hayy contemplates that “Apparently, he was a species set apart from all other animal species, created for a different end than all the rest, dedicated to a great task which no animal could undertake” it suggests that humans are above all other life on Earth, and as such Ibn Tufayl further expresses how human curiosity can lead mankind to solve greater tasks than any other species on the planet (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page
For instance, when Ibn Tufayl examines the Prophet’s words “I am the ears He hears by and the sight He sees by” and continues with “Hayy found himself a burning desire to know Him more fully” Ibn Tufayl demonstrates how human curiosity can be formed out of understanding the universe, which in this case was prompted by a religious phrase (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page 127-128). This also sparks Hayy’s curiosity to examine the heavenly bodies (planets) as shown by “Hayy left behind all these things and turned his mind to the heavenly bodies. He reached this level at twenty eight, having completed four seven-year phases in his development” (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page 128). With this in mind, Ibn Tufayl establishes that Hayy’s curiosity has no bounds since he is now studying the sky with accuracy, and by extension this suggests that humans have the same capability. Lastly, when Hayy contemplates that “Apparently, he was a species set apart from all other animal species, created for a different end than all the rest, dedicated to a great task which no animal could undertake” it suggests that humans are above all other life on Earth, and as such Ibn Tufayl further expresses how human curiosity can lead mankind to solve greater tasks than any other species on the planet (Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Page