Is man good or evil

IS MAN GOOD OR EVIL?

Alongtime , the way in which people think is radically changed. If thousands of years ago the weak ones were always been given away, the human nature have been changed so much as in our days, those who are weak are helped in the most possible way to get through their handicaps and enjoy life as much as they can. Another eloquent example is the equality between sexes, nonexistence until the middle of the 1900, but so good inveterate now in 21st century, so that human nature gets on with the quality of the society.

By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; and its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right. (Qur`an,91:7-8)

We showed him the right and wrong path. It is now up to him to be grateful or ungrateful. (Qur`an,76:3)

These passages of Qur’an elaborate that God has sent man in this world with a clear consciousness of virtue and vice, consciousness of good and bad which is a part of human nature.

A deeper analysis reveals that God has granted the consciousness for judging good and bad, not that God has created man as good or bad. It is the free will of man which helps him decide which path to follow.

The awareness about good and evil is a part of a human nature which accepts this concept as something which is inborn. Man is fully aware of the realities that are a part of his innerself although he may negate them.

It is noteworthy that when man commits a sin, he does not do so because his intellect demands so and some reasoning diverts his course, or because it was some kind of responsibility, the denial of which would have caused him embarrassment. Whenever man commits evil it is either because of his blind lust or he sometimes starts considering vice as virtue because of some fallacious logic.

Man existing at any time or place has always had a clear understanding of good and evil. Never in this world man has accepted any evil for himself. Every person, whether he is a source of advantage or disadvantage to others, never likes to be harmed by anyone. No thief ever likes to keep a servant who is a thief himself or a selfish person would never like to be treated selfishly at the time of his own need, or an unjust person never likes to be treated unjustly by the judge.

The environment of man conditions him to some set of ideas and beliefs, and then man becomes bound to act according to them. Because over the past thousands of years society has taught mankind a lot about morals, that is why we find perfect harmony or, more precisely, stagnation as far as morals are concerned.

If man would not possess some inborn values and whatever morality he has, and he is the result of society’s teachings, then how did the society acquired those values in the first place, on the basis of which it conditions mankind?

Society itself consists of a group of humans. If man does not have a nature, conscience and intuition then this fact can not become possible for the society, which consists of human beings, and especially to condition people to certain rules and ideas.

All human beings are created on the same nature. It is in the nature of every human to accept good values and morals for himself and reject the opposite and this is the reality which dwells in the heart of man. Every person is aware of it and everyone faces it. This is one of those realities which if denied makes the universe meaningless.

God has not just created man with the awareness of good and evil, he has gifted man with a hidden conscience, which pushes him towards good and stops him from committing evil.

Even if the leaders of a nation try to make people understand, through sermons, that certain actions fall under the category of good and certain other under evil, or good is bad and bad is good, it will be clear in any case that good and evil independently exist in reality and there is no need to prove their normative existence. Man is fully aware of it, in fact man is aware of this reality to such an extent, that humanity has never cared about anything contrary to it.