بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Bestower of Mercy. The sura opens by naming God through mercy before anything else is said. The two names are not repetition: the commentaries take them as mercy that is vast and mercy that reaches its object.
اللہ کے نام سے جو بے حد مہربان اور رحم کرنے والا ہے۔ تفاسیر اس پر متفق ہیں کہ یہاں ایک فعل محذوف ہے — پڑھتا ہوں یا شروع کرتا ہوں — اور کلام کا آغاز اللہ کی رحمت کے ذکر سے کیا گیا ہے۔
hadith witness: 7 rows - sunni muslim 878, sunni ibnmajah 3784, sunni abudawud 821, sunni nasai 914, sunni tirmidhi 3125 | prophetic-transmitted (collection-sahih); prophetic-transmitted (graded-sahih); shia-graded-weak
tafsir: 26 editions comment (ahsan_ur, baghawi, bayan_ur, ibnashur, ibnkathir_ar, ibnkathir_en, ibnkathir_ur, jalalayn, jalalayn_en, maarif_en, miqbas, miqbas_en) - bodies not republished
MACHINE-SCHOLAR assembly - human review invited. Reading: consensus-derived (similarities law). Pillar 1:1 of 6,236 - 900 planning shares by spec.