[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25386]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  Imam Yusuf Saleem, Masjid Muhammad, Washington, DC, offered the 
following prayer:
  With God's name, the merciful benefactor, the merciful redeemer. We 
seek Your guidance, Your mercy, and Your forgiveness that this body of 
servants to God and this country will be blessed with hindsight, 
insight, and foresight as only You can provide. Supply this elected 
assembly, entrusted by our Nation's citizens, to ultimately trust the 
creator of us all. As defined by humans, these are delicate times, but 
still we know it is Your times. So let truth, excellence, justice, and 
service lead the intellects and souls of our House of Representatives.
  Yes, God bless America. Yes, God has blessed America. Yes, God is 
still blessing America, a land of diversity in every imaginable way. 
For in the Holy Quran, a book of guidance to humanity, it states, ``God 
has honored all of the children of Adam.'' And in America's Declaration 
of Independence, ``all men are created equal.''
  So, with resources, material, spiritual, and mental, we thank God. We 
thank You, God, for engineering the tradition of this land to witness 
that life and liberty must be secured by submitting our wills to Your 
plan. Amen.

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