The statement of Allah: Bismillah (In the name of Allah) contains a preposition and object of the preposition which are both actually associated with a delayed, missing verb appropiate to the situation. Accordingly, if you say, "In the name of Allah," while you are beginning to eat, then the meaning with the missing verb included would be:
"In the name of Allah, I eat."
We say that there must be an associated missing verb because a preposition and the object of the preposition in arabic must both refer to an action. This delay of action or verb is deffered until after mentioning the name of Allah for two benefits;
- To seek the blessing of mentioning Allah's name first and foremost.
- A delayed action indicates that it is restricted, as if you are saying, "I do not eat in the name of anyone, seeking blessings and help by that name, except with the name of Allah."
We say the delayed missing word is a verb because action words are are verbs and this is known to the specialists of Arabic grammer and for this, nouns do not apply except with specific conditions.
We also said that it (the deferred, missing verb) is appropiate to the situation in which the statement is made because the statement itself indicates the intended verb which is according to the situation. For this reason, Allah's Messenger said specifying the verb:
"Whoever has not already slaughtered (his animal), then let him slaughter in the name of Allah."(Al-Bukhaari no.985 and Muslim no.1970)
or he said: "Upon the name of Allah."(Al-Bukhaari no.5500 and Muslim no.1970)
As for the word "Allah" is a proper name for the lord of all the creations. No one else is named with this name. It is the base origin of all the other names (of Allah) and all of them follow and describe this name.
Source: Funamentals of Tafseer by Sheikh Ibn Uthaymeen p152-153
In the next post we shall discusses Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem inshallah.
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