As a significant issue in the field of discipline and education, compassion plays a key role in interpersonal and social relationships, serves to meet certain needs,and causes responsiveness of individuals and solidarity among them. Nowadays,compassion is somehow ignored as an influential social factor,but it has been paid attention by the Quran and Hadiths as the two major sources of guidance.
Using a descriptive-analytical method, this study aims at the concept of compassion and its disciplinary effects as stated in the Quran and Hadiths.The concept is evaluated at both individual and social levels so as to detect its features as well as the corresponding skills practiced in ideological, emotive, affective and ethical domains and to grow a culture of compassion in the community and focus on it.
According to the results of the study,compassion is a positive individual and social attribute which leads to mutual effects and, thus, well-being and tranquility. It is an intertwined set of attributes and skills which means something beyond kindness or sympathy. It is also found as a parameter that bases a person’s relations with ‘God’,‘oneself’,and ‘others’ upon divine faith, kindness, responsiveness, sympathy,and unanimity.In this regard, one can recount a few basic educational functions for compassion.They include a)giving a sense of God’s presence in all aspects of life and that He is the sole source of bounties, b)controlling emotions and managing behaviors, c)soothing those in misery and corroborating them in the face of material and spiritual sufferings, and d)setting the ground for mutual affection and well-being.