Extend Compassion to All

EXTEND COMPASSION TO ALL Fulfilling one’s own need is to respond to one’s own natural urges. Fulfilling others’ needs is a form of worship and demonstrates the highest form of human values. A tradition reported in different books of Hadith has been recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari under the title, ‘Mercy to man and animal’. According to this tradition, “A man was once walking along a path and because he was extremely thirsty, when he saw a well, he got down into it and drank water from it. Then when he came back up, he saw a dog there who was panting with severe thirst and eating wet mud. The man saw that this dog was also suffering in the same way as he had been suffering. So he again went down into the well. Once down, he filled his shoe with water which he caught hold with his teeth. He then came back up with the water and offered it to the dog to drink. God accepted his deed, and gave him salvation and forgave him. People asked, ‘O God’s messenger,