For the transition end of sūrah A | basmalah | start of sūrah B, the book rejects joining A's ending to the basmalah and then pausing before B.
The basmalah belongs with the following sūrah's opening, not as a concluding phrase of the previous sūrah. The cited line by al-Shāṭibī stresses this distinction. Crucially, this is an inter-sūrah rule, not the earlier four starting methods involving istiʿādhah.
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The prohibited inter-sūrah pattern
Istiʿādhah, Basmalah and the Rules of Joining and Pausing
For the transition end of sūrah A | basmalah | start of sūrah B, the book rejects joining A's ending to the basmalah and then pausing before B.
The basmalah belongs with the following sūrah's opening, not as a concluding phrase of the previous sūrah. The cited line by al-Shāṭibī stresses this distinction. Crucially, this is an inter-sūrah rule, not the earlier four starting methods involving istiʿādhah.