A thoughtful reader recently asked a question that echoes through many hearts: “If every birth is a blessing, was the birth of Adolf Hitler a blessing?”
It is a question born not of cynicism, but of genuine struggle. Because when we look at the immense suffering, destruction, and moral darkness linked to certain individuals in history, we instinctively recoil. How can such a life be counted as a blessing?
But this question arises only when we confuse birth with subsequent behaviour, and or start with outcome.
Birth is a blessing because it represents the Creator’s gift of opportunity, the opportunity to rise, to grow, to correct, to serve and to uplift. It is the divine opening of a door. What a person then chooses to do after stepping through that door is a different matter entirely.
No birth guarantees goodness; it guarantees possibility, it grants immense opportunities.
And each birth, which grants us the opportunity to redeem past errors, to develop, to mature, and to ascend spiritually, is always a blessing.
We must not assume that the most troubling historical figures came into the world as embodiments of evil. They arrived as souls endowed with free will, responsibility, and the capacity to choose their path. The tragedy of Adolf Hitler lies not in his birth, but in what he freely chose to become.
And we may further note that even when a child enters the world with certain negative propensities, birth still offers the opportunity to reflect, to correct, and to strive toward a better path.
Every seed has potential for fruit, but the cultivation, climate, decisions, and ultimate direction determine what emerges. A birth grants only the soil and the opportunity; the life reveals the choices.
We must also remember:
Challenging lives often compel humanity to confront truths we would otherwise avoid.
History’s darkest figures have, paradoxically, forced moral clarity upon the world. Through the devastation they unleashed, nations awakened to the dangers of hatred, arrogance, racial supremacy agendas, and unchecked power. Humanity learned painful lessons about vigilance, conscience, compassion, and the sacredness of human dignity.
This does not excuse the wrong, but it reveals that even great darkness can provoke great awakening.
To label any birth as a curse is to suggest that Creation miscalculates. But Divine Wisdom which rules in Creation does not err. Each soul is placed into conditions that match what it must learn, and what humanity must learn through it. The burden is on the individual to respond to that opportunity with nobility rather than destructiveness.
Birth offers grace; life reveals responsibility.
Hitler’s life shows what happens when ego, resentment, hatred, and ambition seize the wheel. It is a warning etched into history, urging every generation to guard the inner landscape of thought, feeling, and motive. In this way, even such a tragic life becomes a stern teacher for the world.
So, was his birth a blessing?
The birth, yes because every birth is a divine grace, a moment when immense possibilities are entrusted to a soul.
As for the life that unfolded afterward, it is not for us to render a final verdict. What we can say is that the choices he made brought immense suffering, even as humanity was forced through deep pain to confront truths it might otherwise have ignored. In this way, the blessing offered at birth was not expressed in noble deeds but became, through tragic misuse, a stern lesson for the world.
And yet, even from such a difficult life, humanity gained painful but necessary clarity about conscience, power, hatred, and the sacred need to guard the dignity of every human being.
And that is precisely why we must cherish our own lives with deeper seriousness. For each of us holds the same freedom: to build or to break, to uplift or to wound, to sow love or to sow pain.
As long as we are alive, the blessing of birth continues.
And the question placed before each soul remains the same:
What will you do, or what are you presently doing with the gift you have been given?
May our choices turn every gift into a force that matters, leaving the world richer for our having been here.
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