Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Anne Grieve and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net The Wisdom of the East Series EDITED BY L. CRANMER-BYNG Dr. S. A. KAPADIA THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUL _Motto_-- "'Twas what it was, 'tis not to be expressed. Enquire no further, but conceive the best." GHAZALI. WISDOM OF THE EAST THE AWAKENING OF THE SOUL RENDERED FROM THE ARABIC WITH INTRODUCTION BY DR. PAUL BRÖNNLE F.R.G.S., F.R.HIST.S., M.R.A.S., ETC. [Illustration] FOURTH IMPRESSION LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1910 PRINTED BY HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD., LONDON AND AYLESBURY. _To Her Excellency THE COUNTESS OLGA ÜXKÜLL-GYLLENBAND Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty The Queen of Wurtemberg Respectfully dedicated by PAUL BRÖNNLE_ CONTENTS _Page_ INTRODUCTION, 9 Different Accounts of the Birth of Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, 29 Hayy Ibn Yokdhan, son of a Princess, 30 Hayy is exposed by his Mother, 30 Hayy is driven by the tide to another Island, 31 Hayy is found by a Roe, which takes care of him, 31 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