Basmalah (reciting Bismillah) is recommended before starting any action or deed.
- For instance, Basmalah is recommended before starting a Khutbah (speech).
- The Basmalah is also recommended before one enters the place where he wants to relieve himself, there is a Hadith concerning this practice.
- Further, Basmalah is recommended at the beginning of ablution, for Imam Ahmad and the Sunan compilers recorded that Abu Hurayrah, Sa`id bin Zayd and Abu Sa`id narrated from the Prophet ,
"There is no valid ablution for he who did not mention Allah's Name in it."
This Hadith is Hasan (good).
- Also, the Basmalah is recommended before eating, for Muslim recorded in his Sahih that the Messenger of Allah said to `Umar bin Abi Salamah while he was a child under his care,
"Say Bismillah, eat with your right hand and eat from whatever is next to you."
- Some of the scholars stated that Basmalah before eating is obligatory.
- Basmalah before having sexual intercourse is also recommended. The Two Sahihs recorded that Ibn `Abbas said that the Messenger of Allah said,
"If anyone of you before having sexual relations with his wife says, 'In the Name of Allah. O Allah! Protect us from Satan and also protect what you grant us (meaning the coming offspring) from Satan,' and if it is destined that they should have a child then, Satan will never be able to harm that child."
How beautiful is this religion alhamdulillah! Starting everything in the name of the Most Generous, Allah..
May Allah guide us to implement this into our lives ameen
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