For the God of all of you is One God.
There is no God but Him,
the All-Merciful, the Mercy-Giving.
—The Quran, 2:163
(WASHINGTON, DC – 8/1/2021) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations remembers with great sorrow the tragedy of the September 11, 2001 attacks and prays for those impacted by that horrific day here and around the world over the past twenty years.
We pray:
O God! Give solace to each one of us for the losses with which You have tested us, and console us, and forgive us, and have mercy on us. You, You alone, are the Hearer of Prayer!
We remember the 2,977 men, women, and children who were killed and the more than 6,000 who were injured in our nation on September 11, 2001.
We remember the countless men, women, and children who have been impacted by hate and bigotry inside and outside the Muslim over the past 20 years, including the first victim of a post-9/11 hate crime, Balbir Singh Sodhi.
We remember the American Muslims among the heroic first responders and critical caregivers who risked and lost their lives to help others on September 11, 2001.
We remember the more than 900,000 men, women, and children who have been killed over the past twenty years in countries around the world as a result of that day in the disastrous “War on Terror.”
Many Americans and millions of people in far-flung places have endured immense suffering on each of the 7,304 sunrises that have passed since that fateful Tuesday.
Therefore, we turn to the true and only God of us all and ask Him to comfort and guide the hearts of every soul that has known loss, pain, privation, and distress linked to September 11, 2001, and each one since then whose ache and anguish in any way connects, however indirectly, to that tragedy.
We ask the One who alone binds hearts, moreover, to knit all of ours together in faith and kindness, in love and forgiveness.
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