[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 158 (Thursday, November 15, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H8183]
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                        House of Representatives

  The House met at 10 a.m.
  Imam Yahya Hendi, Muslim Chaplain, Georgetown University, Washington, 
D.C., offered the following prayer:
  A reading from the Holy Koran, the Muslims' Holy Scripture, chapter 
5, verses 8 and 9:
  ``And remember the favor of God unto you, and His covenant, which He 
ratified with you, when you said: `we hear and we obey.' Fear God, for 
God knows well the secrets of your hearts. O you of faith! Stand up 
firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealings. Let not the hatred of 
others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be 
just, that is next to righteousness. Fear God for God is well-
acquainted with all that you do.''
  And now let us bow our heads before God and pray:
  Loving God!
  Source of justice, goodness and generosity!
  We ask You to guide the men and women of this Congress with Your 
divine light, to empower them with Your wisdom, to enable them to be 
agents of peace in this Nation and around the world.
  Help them lead us to act as brothers and sisters. Empower them to 
help us work out our differences. Help them help us confront hatred 
wherever it exists that we all may live as one Nation, united, under 
God.
  God!
  Receive our thanks and hear our prayers. Amen.

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