The Word “Bism” Is a Syriac Script and Not an Arabic One
The response to the doubt that the word Bismillah is a Syriac script and not an Arabic one.
The evidence is that the equivalent of the word in Syriac is ܒܫܡ Bishm. The one who raises the doubt says that if a Muslim wrote Bismillah in the dictation exam, he would get zero.
The answer
is that we say, and with God’s help,
that the Qur’anic script, or what is called the Ottoman script, is a comprehensive script for the Arabic script. That is why the word Bismillah came in the Almighty’s saying, “In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,” without the alif, because the Arabs drop it due to frequent use. Likewise, it came in the Qur’an with the alif in the Almighty’s saying, “Read in the name of your Lord who created.” Likewise, the word “prayer” was written as “prayer” and “prayer.” A certain script may become famous in people’s writings without another. This does not mean that the other script is specific to the Qur’an only, but it is possible to write with it without embarrassment. However, the Qur’an must be written with the script that was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, only and not any other. As for those who say that it is obligatory to adhere to this script (Bism) in other than the Qur’an, it is because it became famous among people due to the ease of this script and to make the style of the Qur’an distinct and unique. They made it a conventional script only, and it is possible to change this convention and adhere to the Qur’anic script. The other,
even if writing Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem without the Alif in Bismillah is a Syriac script and not an Arabic one, and the Qur’an transmitted it from Syriac, why did the Arab Christians write it with this script in the hymn “I trust in you, O Lord” and not write it with Bismillah on the basis that this is the only Arabic script, as the one who raised the doubt claims
? In fact, this agreement between the writing of the word Bismillah with the Syriac word Bashm proves the correctness of the Ottoman script and that it is a known Arabic script, and the agreement of Syriac with this script is because Arabic and Syriac go back to a common origin, or Syriac took the word with this writing from the Arabic language
Why does an important Christian reference like this sometimes write Bismillah without the alif, and then a lay Christian who doesn’t know how to read comes and tells you Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem is written wrong!
Our response to him should be to ask his father in the church to prevent him from writing and from drinking the jug of the blood of the Lord, which is sealed and aged.
