Can you please tell me what is the correct way to recite surah fatihah? Is it bismillaah ar rahman ar raheem or bismilaa hir rahman nir raheem?
The Arabic letters say “bism Allah al-rahman al-raheem”, but when you read in Arabic, you say bismillahir rahmanir raheem. The way you pronounce certain words changes based on the context, so the reading is usually slightly different from what it appears to someone who doesn’t know Arabic very well.
To learn the correct way to recite Surat al-Fatihah, just listen to its recitation many times until you memorize it. Here is my favorite recitation of the surah.
And God knows best.
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JAK, thank you for clarifying. I wonder if it would be more beneficial to have the spelling in a more phonetic format? Especially for us converts or primarily English speakers. I found a YouTube video that had slowed down a recitation and it had the phonetic spelling which made it so much easier to learn than just listening over and over again trying to decipher the individual sounds on my own.