Abstract
Compassion is one of the most beautiful indicators of the bond between the creator and the created. We can examine compassion in two parts: The first is divine mercy, which belongs to the creator and encompasses the whole world in order to facilitate the life of the creatures, and the second is human mercy, which contains the beautiful traits of the creature for other creatures, such as compassion, love and assistance. The infinite love, tolerance and forgiveness of the creator towards his creations are in the compassion of the creator, which includes all creatures from human to animal and nature. Especially the creator, who asked man to take himself as an example, has clearly stated that he describes mercy as a superior qualification and that a person who can have it and reflect it to the outside will be in a respectable position both in his own level and in the presence of other creatures.
The feeling of compassion has been found and highly recommended in all belief systems, not only in the religions that are qualified as divine religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. As the main subject of our study, there are dozens of verses on the subject of mercy in the Bible, which includes the sacred texts of religions such as Judaism and Christianity. Despite the many mistakes and ungratefulness he made, Allah did not forgive people and diminish the blessings he gave him, and asked his servants to take him as an example. Allah, who warns them of the difficulties they will encounter throughout their lives, heralds that anyone who is merciful to other creatures in his heart will be rewarded both in this world and in the hereafter.
In this study we have done, based on the verses about compassion found in the Old and New Testaments and Deuterocanonic (Apocryphal) books, the views of Judaism and Christianity on this issue are discussed from the Biblical perspective.