According to the Torah, Cain and Abel were the sons of Adam and Eve, born after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Cain, the elder son, was a farmer and Abel was a sheep herder. One day God asked Cain and Abel to make an offering to Him. Abel thought about what he could do to make God happy. Finally he decided to sacrifice one of his favorite sheep. Cain, on the other hand, thought of what would be of no use to him, what he would not feel if he lost it, and finally offered some fruit and grain. God accepts Abel's offering and is pleased with him.

Cain becomes jealous of his brother and kills him. When God asks Cain about his brother: "I don't know, am I my brother's keeper?" he replies. God curses Cain and he will no longer be able to farm and will wander the world for the rest of his life. Also, all the children born to him will not be able to understand each other's language. From that day on, the people of the world began to speak different languages in different geographies and brother could not understand the language of his brother and what he was talking about. From that day on, brother began to shed the blood of brother. That day the battle of darkness and light, good and evil began. Laotse said, "Nothing is gained by the violence of arms", while the Indian ruler Ashoka forbade war in his own land. Elsewhere, the Greek Sophocles had my favorite Antigone say the following: "I was born to love together, not to hate together." But if it were not for these voices that constantly commanded history to stop violence and hatred, humanity would have drowned in its own blood long ago.

In the midst of great disasters, threats, dangers, a warm breeze accompanies us. It is like the birth of light out of darkness. It brings sweet consolation and lightness. Like Martin Luther King, the black pastor and civil rights activist who fought for equality for black Americans. He learned nonviolent resistance from Gandhi and his struggle for freedom in India. Gandhi learned from Laotse, from Buddha, from Jesus. For the Chinese there is Ying and Yang. Ying is feminine and Yang is masculine and they maintain balance. Like breathing in and breathing out, male and female, right hand and left hand. Light and darkness, good and evil. Ultimately the two balance each other. There can be no Yang without Ying, because male yang alone leads the world to despair; it leads itself to destruction. So Yang eventually balances itself against Ying. Jesus, in his mountain message, said, "Love your enemies. " "If someone slaps you, turn the other cheek." These beings of special vibration knew that in the battle between good and evil, good will always win. Buddha's view was:" "I am good to good and evil to evil, because good is inherently good". Confucius said, "Repay evil with good."

According to Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, one of the world's greatest religions: Good and evil could not come from the same source. Therefore, he attributed good to Ahura Mazda and evil to Ehriman and thought that there was a constant war between them. This war would of course end with the victory of good. The battle between good and evil would go on and on. Virtuous people had to be on the side of good in this war. Good and evil, light and darkness, sky and earth were colliding. For social order, every person who wanted to be human had to stand on the side of love against hatred, peace against war...

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber