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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on writing the Basmala in invoices and commercial documents

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Question:
We observe that all printing presses write the Basmala in most of their printed materials, especially invoices and commercial documents. It is required to alert them to this; because they are thrown into the trash and garbage afterwards.

Answer:
A person is required to invoke the name of Allah in his writings, and it is not permissible to tell people not to write the name of Allah; that is an abomination. However, the sin is upon the one who leaves it in the garbage. The one who leaves it in the garbage is the one who commits the sin. As for printing presses, if they write "Bismillah" in newspapers, invitation cards, or the like, they are commanded to do so. The Sunnah is to write the invocation in cards, invitations, and letters. So the one who throws it in the garbage, in the trash, or in any place he can, is the other one [at fault], not the one who wrote it.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ ابن باز Alsheikh Binbaz»، 078 التنبيه على عدم كتابة اسم الله على الورق الذي سيرمى للإمام ابن باز — youtube.com

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