{"id":6619,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/reciting-basmalah-in-the-prayer\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:20:54","slug":"reciting-basmalah-in-the-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/reciting-basmalah-in-the-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reciting Basmalah In The Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I have two questions. 1 &#8211; I asked you earlier about Bismillah in the beginning of <em>Surah Fatiha<\/em>.  You gave a good answer but you didn&#8217;t clear my doubt about whether it  is necessary to recite it in the beginning of a prayer! And whether the  prayer is acceptable if <em>Bismillah<\/em> is not recited &#8230; since it is the part of <em>Surah Fatiha<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div>2 &#8211; Suppose I went for the Isha&#8217;a Prayer and I missed one &#8221; <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> &#8220;. Now I will pray with the imam the three <em>raka&#8217;ats<\/em>. When I get up to pray my missed <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em>,  will it be my first <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> or last? Will I recite a <em>surah<\/em> in it with <em>Fatiha<\/em> or just the <em>Surah<\/em> <em>Fatiha<\/em>?<\/div>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>We believe that <em>bismillah<\/em> is not part of any <em>surah<\/em> except for <em>surah al-naml<\/em> where it also comes in the text of the <em>surah<\/em> forming its part. It is only an introductory formula, a <em>du&#8217;a<\/em> and a separator. Since it is not part of <em>Surah al-Fatihah<\/em> it does not nullify the prayer if one misses it. <\/p>\n<div>When we join the prayer late and the imam finishes the prayer we get up and offer the missed <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em>. This means that the missed <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> in your example would be the first one. It is better you started it just like we start the first <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> with <em>bismillah<\/em>. However, if you miss it, it does not cancel the prayer. The reason of this difference of opinion is that <em>bismillah<\/em> was recited softly and not loudly and there is no conclusive argument for this view or that.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-20<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6619\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two questions. 1 &#8211; I asked you earlier about Bismillah in the beginning of <em>Surah Fatiha<\/em>.  You gave a good answer but you didn&#8217;t clear my doubt about whether it  is necessary to recite it in the beginning of a prayer! And whether the  prayer is acceptable if <em>Bismillah<\/em> is not recited &#8230; since it is the part of <em>Surah Fatiha<\/em>. <\/p>\n<div>2 &#8211; Suppose I went for the Isha&#8217;a Prayer and I missed one &#8221; <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> &#8220;. Now I will pray with the imam the three <em>raka&#8217;ats<\/em>. When I get up to pray my missed <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em>,  will it be my first <em>raka&#8217;at<\/em> or last? Will I recite a <em>surah<\/em> in it with <em>Fatiha<\/em> or just the <em>Surah<\/em> <em>Fatiha<\/em>?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1158],"tags":[2471,1306,1159],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worship-rituals","tag-basmalah","tag-isha","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reciting Basmalah In The Prayer - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/reciting-basmalah-in-the-prayer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reciting Basmalah In The Prayer - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have two questions. 1 - I asked you earlier about Bismillah in the beginning of Surah Fatiha. 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