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Bismillah
Arabic: bi-smi llahi r-rahmāni r-rahīm
Opening phrase of all suras in the Koran, meaning 'In the name of God; the Merciful; the Compassionate', except for sura 9 (the reason for this omission is that the beginning of this sura makes the bismillah superfluous).
The function of the bismillah is to state that the sura is issued in the name of God, and is not made by man. Learned Muslims will in most cases say that it is Muhammad who added the bismillah to the revealed texts with this purpose in mind.
As Allah, Rahman, and Rahim all theoretically can be name of gods, there were some few local speculations in early Islam whether the bismillah was referring to one or three gods. Some Meccans in the first years of Islam did see in this a polytheism. This died out, and later on there have been very few attempts to interpret the bismillah into a trinity equal to the one of Christianity.
The short form bismillah is used as a part of daily language, normally as a way of underlining sincerity and honesty.
Beelzebub
SYLLABICATION: Be·el·ze·bub
PRONUNCIATION: b-lz-bb
NOUN: 1. The Devil; Satan. 2. One of the fallen angels in Milton's Paradise Lost. Beelzebub was next to Satan in power. 3. An evil spirit; a demon.
ETYMOLOGY: Hebrew baal zbūb, lord (of the) fly, alteration of baal zbūl, lord prince. See bcl in Appendix II.
Scaramouche
A Romance of the French Revolution
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