Who is Allah/God? (1)

"...., the Beneficent, the Merciful,
...., Lord of the Worlds,
The Beneficent, the Merciful,
Master of the Day of Judgment." Quraan 1:1-4

١..... الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

.... رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ

الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ

الفاتحة - الآيات ١-٤

Those verses are all from the first Surah (chapter) in Quraan which is called 'Al Fatiha' which means 'The Opening'. This Surah has to be recited by Muslims twice in each prayer, there's five prayers a day, means it has to be recited ten times a day, the word 'merciful' is mentioned four times in two forms (merciful & beneficent) so that's forty times.

Forty times a day Muslims remind themselves of how Merciful the Creator is and how we should be merciful among ourselves non-Muslims in general & Muslims in particular. The word 'Beneficent' is believed to be covering all the living beings and the word 'Merciful' is believed to be covering Muslims in particular.

The question is, do I practice what I recite? or I talk the talk and don't walk the walk? As a Muslim I need to evaluate my mercy between now and then to see how merciful I'm with people/things around me. I think the lowest level of mercy is not to be ruthless, if my mercy is below that level then something is fundamentally wrong with me!