ANSWER:

Only the first rakah

The basmalah is recited before reading the fatiha in every rakah.

QUESTION: When starting Salah, before surah Fatiha, should we recite the following 3 things: du’a istiftah, aa ‘udu billahi minashhaitaanirrajeem, Bismillah hirrahman-irrahim in ALL the rakahs or only in the first rakah when we start praying?

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QUESTION: If someone doesn’t pray besides some taraweehs or Eid prayer, or only prays isha during Ramadan (so basically they rarely pray), and they are told to pray or they will go to hell, but they still don’t establish the salah and don’t really change, are they a kaffir? Or is there anything else to be done?
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QUESTION: In our cultural marriage ceremony, the bride is well dressed on the marriage day to be seen by the non-mahram of the groom side on the day of walima. If someone wants to have walima and maintain the privacy of the bride, how should he organize or deal with the weeding?