Surah al-Fatiha ayah 1
Bismillahi ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah:
"With the Name of Allaah" meaning I start with every name that belongs to Allaah, the Exalted. This is because the word 'name' is singular and in the genitive form and therefore it includes all of the Beautiful Names. The action that the servant intends to do has been omitted in the sentence in order to generalise the statement [known as the basmallaah]. Hence no matter what the servant intends to do, the basmallaah is applicable to it.
Therefore it is as if the servant is saying 'I seek the help of Allaah with every Name of His, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful in the action I am about to do.'
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