Editing Compassion (section)

====Islam====
[[File:Nomad prayer.jpg|thumb|A 1930s photograph of a desert traveler praying to [[Allah]] "the Compassionate, the Merciful"]]

In the Muslim tradition, foremost among [[Allah|God's]] [[99 Names of Allah#List of Names|attributes]] are mercy and compassion, or, in the canonical language of Arabic, {{transliteration|ar|Rahman}} and {{transliteration|ar|Rahim}}. Each of the 114 chapters of the [[Quran]], with one [[At-Tawbah|exception]], begins with the verse, "In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful."<ref name="autogenerated2">{{Cite web |title=University of Southern California |url=http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/tawheed/conceptofgod.html |url-status=dead |access-date=2 June 2014 |publisher=Usc.edu |archive-date=21 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221024514/http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/tawheed/conceptofgod.html }}</ref>

{{Blockquote|Certainly a Messenger has come to you from among yourselves; grievous to him is your falling into distress, excessively solicitous respecting you; to the believers (he is) compassionate.|{{qref|9|128|b=yl}}|}}

The Arabic word for compassion is {{transliteration|ar|rahmah}}. Its roots abound in the Quran. A good Muslim is to commence each day, each prayer, and each significant action by invoking Allah the Merciful and Compassionate, i.e., by reciting {{transliteration|ar|Bism-i-llah a-Rahman-i-Rahim}}. The womb and family ties are characterized by compassion and named after the exalted attribute of Allah "{{transliteration|ar|Al-Rahim}}" (The Compassionate).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Jeffrey |first=Isobel |date=2007-02-04 |title=The Contemporary Influences of Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi in the West: The Beshara School and the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society |journal=Comparative Islamic Studies |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=43–68 |doi=10.1558/cis.v1i1.43 |issn=1743-1638}}</ref>