Jurnal Lala

"The discovery of finding the source of his true-self" by Nabilah M K Umarella           Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, a feral child who was discovered and nurtured by a doe on an uninhabited island represents the prototype of a solitary and defenseless humankind. By presenting this precursor, Ibn Tufayl demonstrates the solitude of the unpeopled island as a model of the development of the mind that occurs naturally without the diversion of society which establishes Hayy’s invention on spiritual belief. Moreover, upon the doe’s death, young Hayy suffers the taunts and attacks of other animals until he migrates into a cave and discovers fire. Hayy identified fire as a symbol of the warmth that animates living things and confirms. Propelled by curiosity and desire for knowledge, he then dissected animals where he concluded that warmth is an animating spirit, and "He was sure for this reason, that he himself was the ideally balanced animal, kindred spirit of the celestial bodies" (