Allow query param to strip Bismillah from first ayahs

[RabeeAbuBaker]

I had to do it manually:

if (this.surahNumber !== 1) { // Remvoing basmala this.ayahs[0].text = this.ayahs[0].text.substring(38); }

[vipafattal]

@RAbuBaker This way of removing Baslmalih has a lot of drawbacks, this will remove more text in Surah Tawba since no Baslmalih in it, and in some cases, the Baslmalih has Arabic Shadiha ( ّ ) such as Surah AlQader, in this case, the length of Baslmalih is no longer 38.

My solution to this is to get the range of Baslmalih by getting the first index of "ٱلرَّحِيمِ" then replacing this range with an empty string:

(This code is in Kotlin, but I think you can find something similar for what are you programming in)

const val Fatiha = "Al-Faatiha"
const val Tawba = "At-Tawba"

fun getEndIndexOfBasmalih(): Int {
        //Works only for quran-uthmani
        val string = "ٱلرَّحِيمِ"
        return ayaText.indexOf(string, 0) + string.length
    }

fun getTextWithoutBasmalih(numberInSurah :Int): String {
      return   if (numberInSurah == 1 
            &&  surah!!.englishName != MushafConstants.Fatiha
            &&  surah!!.englishName != MushafConstants.Tawba)
            ayaText.substring(getEndIndexOfBasmalih(), ayaText.length)
        else ayaText
    }

[RabeeAbuBaker]

@RAbuBaker This way of removing Baslmalih has a lot of drawbacks, this will remove more text in Surah Tawba since no Baslmalih in it, and in some cases, the Baslmalih has Arabic Shadiha ( ّ ) such as Surah AlQader, in this case, the length of Baslmalih is no longer 38.

My solution to this is to get the range of Baslmalih by getting first index of "ٱلرَّحِيمِ" then replacing this range with an empty string:

(This code is in Kotlin, but I think you can find something similar for what are you programming in)

const val Fatiha = "Al-Faatiha"
const val Tawba = "At-Tawba"

fun getEndIndexOfBasmalih(): Int {
        val string = "ٱلرَّحِيمِ"
        return ayaText.indexOf(string, 0) + string.length
    }

fun getTextWithoutBasmalih(numberInSurah :Int): String {
      return   if (numberInSurah == 1 && surah.englishName != Fatiha)
            ayaText.replaceRange(0, getEndIndexOfBasmalih(), "")
        else ayaText
    }

Thanks a lot for pointing out to this.. it was indeed helpful.

I am programming in ES6/Angular. I will certainly do something similar. JazakAllah Kahir..

[vipafattal]

Most Welcome

[meezaan]

@vipafattal @RAbuBaker this will only work with quran-uthmani - not with quran-simple - incase anyone is using that.

[vipafattal]

@vipafattal @RAbuBaker this will only work with quran-uthmani - not with quran-simple - incase anyone is using that.

Yes I'm using it with quran-uthmani if someone is not using generic Quran version, they can replace

val string = "ٱلرَّحِيمِ"

with same version of end Basmalih in quran-simple, otherwise, I would suggest splitting first Aya by whitespace I think this will work fine in all quran version:

fun getEndIndexOfBasmalih(): Int {
    val split = ayaText.split(' ')
    return ayaText.indexOf(split[3], 0) +  split[3].length
}

[meezaan]

Thanks @vipafattal I will try and prioritise this to deal with it on the API side.

[RabeeAbuBaker]

Any update on this? @meezaan

[meezaan]

Al Salaamu Alaykum @RabeeAbuBaker. It's number 5 on the backlog - https://github.com/orgs/islamic-network/projects/5 - so not yet, I'm afraid. But soon, God willing!

[ghazalitajuddin]

I use .replace() method. Those unicode is part of Bismillah. Hope helps.

strippedContent: function(string) { return string.replace("\u0628\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0645\u064e\u0670\u0646\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0645\u0650", ""); },