The word "sacrifice" comes from the root kurb, which means to get close, to be close or to be the means of getting close. The word "Guraba" also comes from here, meaning the poor, the orphans, the strangers. It refers to the distribution of sacrificial meat to the orphans and the poor.

In Christianity, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ gave a special meaning to the word sacrifice. Accordingly, God sacrificed Jesus Christ for the original sin of mankind.

According to the Torah and the Quran, Adam had two sons and two daughters. They had two sets of twins, one boy and one girl. Cain, who thought that Adam loved him more because Abel was a good-natured and calmer son, always harbored a grudge against his brother. When the children grow up, Adam asks Allah, "Are there other tribes to whom he will marry his children? Or how will their descendants reproduce?" Allah tells him to marry the twins crosswise because there are no other tribes, all tribes have perished.

Abel is outraged that his twin should be given to his brother, and this is God's will. But Cain is more convinced that his father loves his brother more than him. He also wants his father's love only for himself.

When the quarrel between Cain and Abel escalates into a fight, their father tries to mediate between them, suggesting that they each offer a sacrifice to God. Whichever sacrifice God accepts will be in the right.

Cain and Abel offer their sacrifices to God. Abel, who is engaged in animal husbandry, offers a ram, and Cain, who is engaged in agriculture, takes the rotten fruit he has left and leaves it on the top of a mountain.

As a result, a fire from the sky takes Abel's sacrifice away. Cain, unable to digest this, becomes very angry and kills his brother Abel. Thus, the first fraternal blood was shed. In the Torah, Cain is referred to as a traitor. In the Qur'an, Surah Maide explains that Abel's sacrifice was accepted and Cain's was not.

Again in the Qur'an, it is narrated that Ishmael was saved with the ram that was given to Abraham when he was going to sacrifice his son and did not go back on his promise to God.

In ancient civilizations, tribes would show their loyalty to the God-Kings they worshipped by sacrificing the strongest, most warrior, most sportsmanlike youth of the tribe on their altars. Seeing the temples and altars on Nemrut Hill and the canals for the bloodshed, even though it hasn't been that long, is a shocking barbarism and beyond reason.

Inca temples and many archaic civilizations had similar sacrificial cults.

Again, knowing that in some civilizations people slaughtered their children as sacrifices really freezes and frightens people.

These barbaric traditions continued until the time of Abraham. Thus, the sacrificial habit of human beings, who are close to the sacrificial tradition, was transformed with the ram.

Since the feelings of greed, anger, envy, jealousy, and ZAN in human beings started with Cain, which is where most of humanity's lineage comes from, this savagery and barbarism of brother slaughtering brother has continued until today.

Sacrifice is dedication.
Sacrifice is sacrifice.
While the tribe was showing its loyalty by dedicating its strongest young man to the king, the devil got in Abraham's way and tempted him to go back on his promise. This is when what is today called "Satan stoning" (the Great Satan) came into being and Abraham threw a stone at the devil to drive him out.
(The second devil came to Hagar, Ishmael's mother, and told her that Abraham was very old, unable to think, had lost his mind, and asked her not to sacrifice her son. But Hagar did not listen to the devil and said that Abraham would do the right thing no matter what he did. Thus, Hagar also stoned the thought of the middle devil.

Satan still did not give up and came to Ismail and provoked him. "Ismail, your father has lost his mind, he will kill you and your mother will not stop him because she is afraid of him. Run away and save your life." Ismail then willingly put his head under the knife. Thus the "Little Satan" was also stoned.

It is clear from all these rituals, ceremonies, beliefs, narratives and scriptures that man has been barbaric and human and has done savage things since his creation. With Abraham, all these barbarities were transformed and ritualized and so on and so forth.

In these days of sacrifice, which carry the meaning of devotion and rapprochement, I wish you an Eid in which we get closer to ourselves, "sacrifice our ego and ego", strip off all our fears and ambitions, our suspicions, our labels, get closer to each other, and transform the consciousness of KURB'an, in which our unity is blessed, into its true meaning...

Mukaddes Pekin Başdil

Researcher-Author

Source: Denizli Haber