বিসমিল্লাহির রহমানির রহিম ( arabic calligraphy)

The Basmala (Arabic: بَسْمَلَة‎, basmalah), also known by its incipit Bism Allah (بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ, "In the name of God"),[1] or Classical Arabic Tasmiyah (تَسْمِيَّة), is the Islamic phrase bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi (بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ), "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful."  A calligraphic rendition of the Basmala.  Mughal era calligraphy This is the phrase recited before each chapter (surah) of the Qur'an – except for the ninth.[Notes 1][2] Muslim disagreement over whether to include the Basmala within the Quranic text, reached consensus following the 1924 Cairo Edition, which included it as the first verse (āyah) of Quran chapter 1 but otherwise included it as an unnumbered line of text preceding the other relevant 112 chapters.[3] The Basmala is used by Muslims in various contexts (for instance, during daily prayer) and is used in over half of the constitutions of countries where Islam is the official religion or more than half of the population follows Islam, usually the first phrase in the preamble, including those of Afghanistan,[4] Bahrain,[5] Bangladesh,[6] Brunei,[7] Egypt,[8] Iran,[9] Iraq,[10] Kuwait,[11] Libya,[12] Maldives,[13] Pakistan,[14] Tunisia[15] and the United Arab Emirates.[16] In Arabic calligraphy, the Basmala is the most prevalent motif, even more so than the Shahadah.[citation needed] In Unicode, the Basmala is encoded as one ligature at code point U+FDFD ﷽ in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block.