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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Reciting the Basmala in Every Rak'ah

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Question:
My brother Ahmad A. A. has a set of questions. This question begins with reciting the Basmala at the beginning of the prayer: is it sufficient to recite it once, or must it be recited in every rak'ah?

Answer:
He recites it before al-Fatihah, at the beginning of the surahs, al-Fatihah and the others. He recites
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ أَلَّا
[An-Naml 27:30-31]
in Surat al-Baqarah, but he does not recite "Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim" at the beginning of Surat al-Bara'ah, because it was not revealed with it.
Source نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/203 — archive.org (4:24)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

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