{"id":1824,"date":"2025-09-26T08:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:37:58","slug":"what-is-the-ruling-of-reciting-basmalah-during-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Ruling of Reciting Basmalah during Prayer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #993300\"><strong>Reciting Basmalah during <a style=\"color: #993300\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/\">Prayer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">What is the ruling of reciting the <em>basmalah<\/em> (<em>bismillah ar-rahman ar-raheem<\/em>) before reciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qurantranslations.net\/sheikh-mishari-bin-rashid-ibrahim-walk-saheeh-intl\/?file=1#player\"><em>Al-Fatihah<\/em> <\/a>(Opening Chapter of the Qur&#8217;an) and other verses of the Qur&#8217;an while offering prayer?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #800080\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of Allah, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Reciting <em>Basmalah<\/em> before Surat Al-Fatihah (the Opening Chapter of the Qur&#8217;an) and other <em>surahs<\/em> of the Qur&#8217;an is highly recommended (confirmed <em>sunnah<\/em>).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The sound narrations from the Prophet (peace be upon him) indicated that he used to recite <em>Basmalah<\/em> during prayer before <em>Surat Al-Fatihah<\/em> and before other <em>surahs<\/em> but he did not recite it out loud in the prayers in which he recited Qur\u2019an out loud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">The Standing Committee of Fatwa in Saudi Arabia said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">&#8220;If (the worshiper) is going to recite a <em>surah<\/em> after <em>Al-Fatihah<\/em>, he should recite <em>Basmalah<\/em> silently beforehand. But if he is going to recite a brief passage from the middle or end of a <em>surah<\/em>, then it is not prescribed for him to recite it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">For more information about such ruling, watch this interesting talk with Dr. Muhammad Salah.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Huda Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/what-is-the-ruling-of-reciting-basmalah-during-prayer\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the ruling of reciting the basmalah before reciting Al-Fatihah (Opening Chapter of the Qur&#8217;an) and other verses of the Qur&#8217;an while offering prayer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1929,1930,1931,1932,1933,1934,1805,1821,1823,1824,1573,1850,1052,1575,183,1935,1852,1576,1577],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-al-fatihah-in-prayer","tag-basmala-before-prayer","tag-basmalah-before-alfatiha-in-prayer","tag-basmalah-during-salat","tag-basmalah-in-prayer","tag-bismillah-in-prayer","tag-guide-to-prayer","tag-how-to-make-salat","tag-how-to-offer-prayer","tag-huda-channel","tag-muslim-prayer","tag-namaz","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-ruling-of-saying-basmala-in-prayer","tag-rulings-of-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/What-Is-The-Ruling-Of-Reciting-the-Basmalah-During-Prayer.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}