infanticide
There is no better feeling than loving a child. There are many people who do not change the world for a child’s smile; But many fathers have willingly or unwillingly sacrificed their children throughout history and created shocking tragedies.
My father used to narrate the story of the infanticide of a person named “Jephthah” by quoting from the Torah. Jephthah was a warrior who vowed to sacrifice the first person to meet him if he won the war. He won the war and when he returned home, he sacrificed the first person who greeted him. The victim was none other than his daughter.
Abraham (pbuh) prepared his son Ishmael as a sacrifice in a divine test, but with God’s permission, he held back.
In the Shahnameh of Hakim Ferdowsi, there are many narrations about infanticide. The story of Zal is one of the narratives of the Shahnameh about the murder of a child by the father. Sam Nariman, who is afraid of the boy’s white hair, orders his murder. In another scene, Kavos, who sees his son Siavash as his love rival, cannot bear it and kills him. In the story of Rostam and Sohrab, this tragedy reaches its peak, and even in the story of Rostam and Esfandiar, we witness infanticide in a way.
All this may be a myth, but today’s fathers killing their children is not a myth, it is a terrible reality.
How do parents kill their children today?
Sacrifice is not only murder, and history is full of shocking stories of fathers and mothers who did not kill their children, but dragged them to the altar. Trapping children in the poverty trap, standing against development, wasting intergenerational resources, making wrong decisions in politics and economy, and limiting children’s freedoms and right to choose is no less than killing them.
I have written many times; We are a generation that eats the rights of our children in order to have more prosperity. We desert ancient forests, dry up thousand-year-old wells, and carve massive mountains to create greater prosperity. We are a generation that owes the future children of this land unborn.
Our ancestors worked hard and created wealth and created a little prosperity for us, but we are doing the opposite of them and robbing the share of future generations. What is spent to increase our prosperity is not only the share of this generation, and we are actually involved in We pocket our children.
In the olden days, fathers believed that forbidden food should not enter the table, is the bread we take home halal? In the old days, if fathers and mothers saw a crumb of bread on the ground, they would kiss it and put it aside, but today, fathers and mothers think that they have another life in the trunk of the car. The ancient fathers were careful that the bricks they put on top of each other were pure and free from doubt, are these skyscrapers that the fathers send to the sky today, pure and free from doubt?
Most of us are fathers and mothers who do not put bread on our tables.
If we are politicians, we owe this amount of corruption and inefficiency to future generations. If we claim to be entrepreneurs, we owe it to our children to be complicit in corruption and inefficiency. If we are politicians, we owe it to the future generations because of this amount of waste of resources and neglecting hundreds of black holes in the economy.
What will the future say about our genocides?
Mohsen Jalalpour