The message of Hayy ibn Yaqdhan

An Arab legend tells the story of a person named Hay bin Yaqzan who grew up alone on an island, symbolizing humans, their relationship with the universe and religion, and also contains many subsidiary stories and legends. It was created by philosophers and contained philosophical content. The first creator of the story of Hay bin Yaqzan was the philosopher Ibn Sina, and he did so during his imprisonment, then it was reconstructed by Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi, and afterward it was written by the Andalusian Arab philosopher Ibn Tufail. The last narration of the story was by Ibn al-Nafis, who became aware of some of the original contents related to Ibn Sina, which did not align with his sect, so he rephrased it to be the story of Hay bin Yaqzan about Salih bin Kamil. The most famous author among these four is Ibn Tufail, whose name became attached to the story. Due to the fame of this philosophical story, Western stories such as the story of Robinson Crusoe and Tarzan were inspired by this story.