1st Lesson: Compassion and Mercy…
The
text is taken from Qur’an 57: 27
that states… “…we sent after them Jesus the Son of Mary and bestowed on him the
Gospel; and we ordained on the hearts of those who followed him COMPASSION AND
MERCY’. (waja’aalnaa fi qulusbi-lladhina-ttaba’uhu raa’fatan wa –rahmatan).
The
two key descriptions of Jesus’ followers are Compassion and Mercy… Is this NOT
the very heart of religion and the very heart of God…?
God
is Rahmaan
and Rahim
(“loving-kindness”). This is the very heart of religion and a believer as
described in Sura 50:37… A believer who
remembers the need for a feeling heart, a hearing mind and a present self… to
his/her neighbor… (“…inna fi dhalika
la-dhikra li-man kana lahu qalb aw alqa al-sam’wa wa huwa shahid”)
Reflecting
on this passage, I wander whether the call for us is, precisely, to retrieve
these key description and allow it to bear upon the relationship between the
worship that we bring and the behavior that we come by… or putting it in
another way, allowing the “coincidence” between the heart of God and the heart
of the believer. (Eliseo “Jun” Mercado, OMI)
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