Part 2

Spontaneous Generation, 32

Hayy grows up nursed by the Roe, 33

Hayy learns to imitate animals' voices, 34

Hayy begins to take a careful view of things, 34

Hayy observes the difference between the animals and himself, 35

Hayy as a boy of seven. He covers himself with leaves, 36

Hayy becomes aggressive, and attacks wild beasts, 36

Hayy covers himself with the skin of an Eagle, 37

Hayy spreads terror among the beasts, 37

Hayy is grief-stricken at the death of the Roe, 38

Hayy takes an aversion to the dead body, 38

Hayy buries the body of the Roe, 39

Hayy observes divers kinds of living creatures and plants, 39

Hayy discovers Fire kindled by the friction of reeds, 40

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