the pattern faʿīl can carry the meaning of an active participle as well as that of a passive participle. Examples of its active sense include samīʿ (all-hearing), baṣīr (all-seeing), and ʿalīm (all-knowing), and there are many such examples.

Examples of its passive sense include jarīḥ (wounded), qatīl (slain), kasīr (broken), and the like.

Thus, Satan is rajīm in both senses: he is pelted with Allah’s curse—Allah’s protection is sought—and driven away and banished from His mercy; and he pelts others with sins, for the devils strongly incite those who commit sins to further sin.

Then he recites the basmalah …

His statement, “Then he recites the basmalah,” means that he says, “In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful.” The author has taken one letter from each word: the ba, the sin, the mim, and the lam. Among grammarians, this manner of forming a word is called naḥt (blending), because one carves words down until extracting this single word.

The basmalah contains a preposition and its governed noun, an adjective and the noun it describes, as well as a construct phrase. The preposition is the ba, and the governed noun is ism (“name”). The adjectives are al-Raḥmān and al-Raḥīm, while the noun described is Allah. It also contains a construct phrase: ism is annexed to the Divine Name.

This basmalah must be connected to something, since every preposition must be connected to something, as the versifier of the rules of syntax said:

Every preposition must be connected
to a verb or what has its meaning, such as “ascending.”

Exclude, however, every supplementary particle that governs,
such as the ba, min, kaf, and also laʿalla.

Here, then, the ba must be connected to something. The best view regarding that to which it is connected is that it is an omitted verb, placed after it, and appropriate to the context. Thus, when you say the basmalah before reciting, the implied meaning is: “In the name of Allah, I recite.” When you say it before eating, it means: “In the name of Allah, I eat”; before drinking: “In the name of Allah, I drink”; and before performing ablution: “In the name of Allah, I perform ablution,” and so on.