[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1452]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Imam Bassam A. Estwani, Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center, Herndon, 
Virginia, offered the following prayer:
  All praise is for God, the Lord of the worlds.
  The compassionate, the merciful.
  Master of the day of judgment.
  O God, You alone we worship and You alone we call on for help.
  O God, guide us to the straight way.
  The way of those whom You have blessed; not of those who have earned 
Your anger, or of those who have lost the way.
  We pray that You guide this noble body of men and women to seek 
justice and equality for all. For as You said:
  O mankind. We created you from a male and a female and made you into 
nations and tribes that you may know and honor each other. Indeed the 
most honorable of you in the sight of God is the most righteous. Amen.

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