Why Must Each Person Say Bismillah?

What a what the prophet would say for the occasion of eating, for the occasion of drinking. He says, the prophet when he would go to eat, he would say bismillah. The narrations, regarding saying bismillah all of them mention bismillah just that. Some scholars such as Sheikh Al Islam, Ib Allah, he mentions bismillah Rahim. Both are acceptable but bismillah is what the narrations mention. The prophet not only would always say bismillah when he would go to eat. But he is well commanded others to say bismillah when they eat. and if he was made to forget, if he'd forget to say bismillah and realize while he was eating, he would say, bismillah, which literally translates to bismillah in the beginning of this food and at the end of it. Then mentions that the scholars differ on whether or not a test me as saying bismillah or the occasion of eating or drinking if it is something that is obligatory or merely preferable. The correct opinion he says is that it is obligatory for a person to say bismillah when they go to eat. And a person who fails purposely to say bismillah or otherwise When they go to eat a Shaitan will accompany them in their food and drink. He says, the narrations regarding its obligatory nature, the the obligation of saying bismillah. They are clear and they are authentic narrations. Then, he goes into the issue of if saying bismillah, if a group of people are eating together is it enough for one person in that group to say bismillah or does each person individually have to say bismillah? It's a difference of opinion amongst the scholars. The opinion that Ibn ul Kaim leans towards here and adopts in Zad il Maad. Is that it is an obligation on the individual level. Each individual is obliged to say bismillah is obligated to say bismillah when they go to eat. because there are some things Islam. If a Wafurut, Ayan, Amarekun,.

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Needs to say. It's a difference of opinion amongst the scholars. The opinion that Ibn il Kaim bolsters here and adopts here in Zad al Maed is that it is an obligation upon each individual. He mentions, for example, a narration, That's the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam was amongst his companions. They were eating. And a man came in to join them. And when he came in to join them the food was gone very quickly. and the prophet noticed that the food was insufficient for all of them and he said to the companions, he said, if he had said bismillah, the food would have been enough. Ibn ol Kaim says, clearly the companions were eating here with the prophet it's clear that they had said bismillah. But this man came in and in spite of that, it did not suffice them. Right? So this is an evidence that individually, each one is responsible for saying bismillah. There are other issues as well. Is something obligatory upon every single person? Or is something obligatory upon? The group as a whole, Right? This is what's called the with the they refer to this as and they say means that it is an obligation. It's binding upon each individual. It's a binding upon the people at an individual level. Like salah for instance. Salah, each person has to pray for himself. No person can pray on behalf of another. This is an individual obligation. A collective obligation is a then. One person amongst us makes a damn. The rest of us don't have to make a then. Right? He mentions for instance, a Salem replying to a Salem. He mentions a salam. If a person comes in, approaches a group of people. And conveys a to them. Do they all have to each individually respond or just one person amongst them? One person amongst them is enough. contrary to responding to someone who sneezes. It's called someone who sneezes and says the prophet says it is an obligation upon each individual who heard him sneeze and say to say but there are other issues as well. such as reciting if we have an imam Do we need to recite even though the imam recited it for us or not. Imam.

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Hope. We mention for instance bismillah when we go to eat is an individual responsibility We mentioned as well saying to someone who sneezes, that this is also an individual responsibility We mention is a collective responsibility. Meaning, if one person says that's enough. For the, for the group. Another issue that goes along these lines is in salah. When we're making together, all of us collectively is it obligatory for each one of us to to recite or is the imam's recitation enough? This is a difference of opinion amongst the scholars and it's a very ancient difference of opinion. This is an issue that has been discussed and absolutely thoroughly gone through with in in in at nauseam detail, right? The opinions vary. Some of the scholars say, each individual person needs to recite on his own. Whether he can hear the imam's recitation or not. and this is a strong opinion and it's the opinion of and his Another opinion is it is only a responsibility of the imam. The person who's praying behind the imam has no responsibility to recite at all. However, a third opinion which is the opinion of Sheikh Al Islam, Ibn Kathir as well, and others and it's the opinion of the majority Also, Al Imam Ahmed, Imam Malik Rahima Allah. is that if the imam recites aloud then his recitation is sufficient. However, if the imam recites in a silent prayer, A then, each individual is responsible to recite for himself.

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Each two. This is important. The reason for this, the prophet commands us. He says, we are not to drink all at once. Rather, we are to drink and divide our drinking into reasonable gulps. He says, it is healthier, It is more tasty, It is cleaner, and better, and more dignified for a person to drink in that manner. If it is a little bit, a person may drink it in one, one shot. Maybe two, maybe three, maybe four. The point is, is that it doesn't have to be exactly three and a many people, they drink the three because they've heard of the narration, which is a problem. Because sometimes we hear about narrations, but we didn't hear the whole story, right? So, we don't have the whole picture. We just have a portion of it and if we research innovation, innovation, a lot of it comes from having a portion of the information rather than all of it. We've heard that a person shouldn't drink all at once, that we should divide it into three, and so the drinking turns into this kind of jittering, the point is that a person take, and take a breath, then take another drink, let a person do it, slowly, methodically, dignified. This is the point. and when a person is completed, completed drinking, that he is to thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and to say whether it's eating or drinking. Alhamdulillah. Allah the.

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Someone else says the answer is yes. It's sufficient. and better for a person to say Is it sufficient for a person who mentions the prophet more than once in a thought. Does he have to say at each point or at the end to suffice the whole, what's better is at each point and that's what the did. When we read the books of Hadith, we find that they would write at each place. However it is sufficient at one point.