Comparing Cyrus the Great and the kings before him
Destroyed , the king of Assyria, who has made the rich plain of Susa his field of conquest
says : "I besieged and attacked thirty-four fortresses and innumerable cities that were subject to them, and I took their people captive, and I turned them into ruins and into gray fields, and the smoke of their fire spread like the smoke of a great sacrifice. I raised the vastness of the sky. »
Ashur Banipal, another tyrant king of the same dynasty, describes the destruction of blessed Elam like this :
"I destroyed so many cities of Ilam that it takes one month and twenty-five days to pass through them .
To make the land fallow everywhere, I brought salt and members of the royal family, young and old, with chiefs and governors, nobles and artisans, all with me as captives to Assyria. . I captured the people of that land, men and women, with horses, mules, donkeys, and herds of small and large cattle, whose number was more than swarms of locusts, and I took the land of Susa, Madektu, Heltmash, and other cities to Assyria.. Within a month, I captured all of Ilam . I removed the call of man and the footsteps of flocks and herds, and the song of joy from the fields, and I made every place a pasture for donkeys, deer, and various wild animals.. » (1)
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But it never occurred to the Assyrian kings that these actions are not the work of a human being and are completely barbaric . This feature existed in the entire eastern world . Even Yahweh, the God of Israel, loved bloodshed and killing everyone . For the truth of this claim, we can refer to the first book of Shmuel 15 ,signs 3 And 4 and the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth and thirty-seventh Farfard referred.
Compared to such kings and such a common thing that we understand, Cyrus was rightly and deservedly given the name "Shepherd of God" and it was not without reason that the people loved him more than any other conqueror. . Most of the kings of the ancient East used to kill and torture in order to prevent rebellion and strengthen the foundations of order, security and citizenship among the heterogeneous nations that were under the yoke of their rule. . Ashur Banipal is proud that he burned three thousand captives, and cut off the hands and feet of tribal chiefs and civil servants.(2) Or he pulled out the malicious tongues of the enemies, and fed their severed limbs to dogs and wolves, thereby making the great gods happy.. Or the buildings that have been erected are from the corpses of people whose heads and hands have been cut off.(3)
But honor Persian king It was in that : « I entered Babylon without a fight . . . My great army slowly entered Babylon . . . I prevented the destruction of their houses . I didn't let the people of the city suffer and I didn't let the people disappear from existence. One of the biggest pillars of his politics and citizenship was that he believed in the freedom of religious belief and worship for the various nations and ethnic groups that made up the parts of the Iranian Empire. . (4) A thing that has not yet been realized in any of the small and big countries of the world that yearn for freedom and democracy, and this means that when, according to Voltaire, : "Rome was a small village that was busy oppressing its neighbors, and France, Germany, and England were the land of wild tribes that had not yet come out of camping.. And America was nothing but a remote continent where its people were in the end savagery, a man in the east of the earth, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan of Aryan race, who knew more about the secrets of monarchy and rule than the great politicians of the 20th century, was the governor. He knew that the first principle of governing people is to respect their religious beliefs and beliefs, whether they are black or white, yellow or red. . Therefore, he never plundered the cities and destroyed the places of worship . He respected the gods of the defeated nations, and helped and cooperated with his people to maintain the shrines..
Cyrus was the courier of happiness, freedom and divine blessings to the people . God mentions him everywhere in the Torah as a great savior and messenger, and frees the Jewish captives from Babylonian captivity.(5) And he will issue justice to the nations, the messenger who is God's shepherd, will bring God's joy and will establish a new place of worship for the Israelites. . Giti will go to the East and the West and the name of the One God will be heard in everyone's ears . (6) Yes, this is the story of the life, victories, judgments, magnanimity, and unique and pleasing morals of a man who rose from Pars two thousand and five hundred years ago..
Taken from the book : Cyrus the Great … Written by Dr. Fereydoun Badrei
Drafts :
1- According to Will Durant
2- The same
3- The same
4- East and the Cradle of Civilization, p 519
5- Book of Jeremiah Bab 29.
6- Isaiah 41, 42 44
