Our holy book, the Koran, consists of 114 chapters, and each chapter begins with what we call the basmala, the saying of "In the name of God, the all compassionate, the all merciful," or, as Sir Richard Burton -- not the Richard Burton who was married to Elizabeth Taylor, but the Sir Richard Burton who lived a century before that and who was a worldwide traveler and translator of many works of literature -- translates it. "In the name of God, the compassionating, the compassionate."
Naša sveta knjiga, Kur'an, sadrži 114 poglavlja i svako poglavlje počinje s onim što mi nazivamo basmala (bismilah) priča u ime Boga, suosjećajnog i milostivog, ili kako je to opisao Sir Richard Burton ne onaj Richard Burton koji je oženio Elizabeth Taylor, nego Sir Richard Burton koji je živio stoljeće ranije i koji je bio svjetski putnik i prevoditelj mnogih književnih djela, on to prevodi kao "u ime Boga, suosjećajnog, onog koji je suosjećajan"