The Recitation of the Basmalah Out Loud Is it from the Sunnah for the imām to say, “Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm” out loud in al-Fātiḥah or in another sūrah in the prayers where recitation is done out loud? Or does he say it quietly? Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allāh, The Most High, have mercy on…