The section's marginal citations and verses from authorities such as al-Shāṭibī, Ibn al-Jazarī, Mullā ʿAlī al-Qārī and others support its distinctions: use transmitted istiʿādhah wording, retain scholarly qualifications about the basmalah, and keep three separate cases apart—sūrah opening, mid-sūrah beginning, and a transition between sūrahs.
An instructional poem is not a Qur'anic verse, and a cited juristic view is not automatically a consensus.
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What the cited notes and couplets teach
Istiʿādhah, Basmalah and the Rules of Joining and Pausing
The section's marginal citations and verses from authorities such as al-Shāṭibī, Ibn al-Jazarī, Mullā ʿAlī al-Qārī and others support its distinctions: use transmitted istiʿādhah wording, retain scholarly qualifications about the basmalah, and keep three separate cases apart—sūrah opening, mid-sūrah beginning, and a transition between sūrahs.
An instructional poem is not a Qur'anic verse, and a cited juristic view is not automatically a consensus.