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Bismillah (Arabic: بسملة) is an Arabic noun used as a collective name for the whole of the recurring Islamic phrase b-ismi-llāh r-raḥmān r-raḥīm. It is sometimes translated as "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful".
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Bismillah ceremony, also known as Bismillahkhani, [1] is a cultural ceremony celebrated mostly by Muslims from the subcontinent in countries such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. It marks the start for a child in learning to recite the Qur'an in its Arabic script.
In the Indian subcontinent, a Bismillah ceremony is held for a child's initiation into Islam. The three definite nouns of the Basmala—Allah, ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim—correspond to the first three of the traditional 99 names of God in Islam. Both ar-Rahman and ar-Rahim are from the same triliteral root R-Ḥ-M, "to feel sympathy, or pity".
A digital rendering of the Bismillah in an 18th-century Islamic calligraphy from the Ottoman region, Thuluth script. Thuluth was developed during the 15th century and slowly refined by Ottoman Calligraphers including Mustafa Râkim, Shaykh Hamdallah, and others, till it became what it is today. Letters in this script have long vertical lines ...
After a Muslim child grows to the age of four years and four months the traditional Bismillah ceremony is performed in which, any elder person from the family or a religious head from the community make the child to recite the first five verses from Surath Al-Alaq—(96th Chapter of the Quran), and from then on wards the child is regularly ...