The Handling of the Solitary: Translated by: Khaled Hafdhi (Unabridged‪)‬

In his audiobook handling of the solitary, Ibn Bajja introduces us to the wise philosopher who considers that all the meanings of our existence are not derived from religious commands, or from laws of society, or even laws of the state, but rather derived directly from our own reason. The solitary is someone who authentically thinks differently than the others, those deceitful many in a quite irrational corrupt society. The solitary is the honest opinion, though stranger in his homeland; amid the ignorant corrupt community. Solitude and solitariness are temporary conditions of rebuilding self-awareness, rethinking of possible solutions to reach the ideal city, and taking a new gulp of air to heal and face common ignorant mobs with the right cures.

Ibn Bajja is writing about solitariness and solitude as positive conditions where the thinker is left to decide the path of reason. The author is trying to answer the following question: how can the ideal being with the help of a genuine mind survive in a corrupt filthy place full of evils that do not fit within the rational realm?