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One surah begins without the basmala

Of the 114 surahs, only one does not begin with 'In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.'

The line bismillahir-rahmanir-rahim opens every surah of the Quran except one: Surat At-Tawbah, the ninth.

Al-Fatihah is different for another reason. There, the basmala is not a heading. In the standard numbering, it is the first verse:

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allāh, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful.
Al-Fatihah 1:1

So of the 114 surahs, 112 have it as a heading, one has it as its first verse, and one does not have it at all.

Sources

  1. 01Quran 9:1 - Surat At-Tawbah opens directly, without the basmala
  2. 02Quran 1:1 - In Al-Fatihah the basmala is counted as the first verse itself