It is one thing to feel compassion but quite another to act on it for the benefit of the disadvantaged. Consider how Jehovah responded when his worshippers were in bondage in Egypt some 3,500 years ago.
لكِنَّ ٱلشُّعُورَ بِٱلرَّأْفَةِ وَحْدَهُ لَا يَكْفِي ،‏ بَلْ يَنْبَغِي أَنْ يَدْفَعَ هذَا ٱلشُّعُورُ ٱلْمَرْءَ إِلَى ٱتِّخَاذِ إِجْرَاءٍ لِمُسَاعَدَةِ ٱلْمُتَضَايِقِينَ .‏