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Donald Trump listens to Holy Quran recitation

Trump became the 45th United States president last week

News Desk January 23, 2017

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United States President Donald Trump sat through a Holy Quran recitation on Saturday as part of an inaugural service.

All Dulles Area Muslim Society executive director Imam Mohamed Magid was expected to give the call to prayer at an inter-faith religious service for Trump but recited two verses from the Holy Quran instead.

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"O humankind, We have created you from a single male and female (Adam and Eve) and made you into nations and tribes and communities, that you may know each other. Really, the most honored of you in the sight of God is the one most righteous of you, and God has full knowledge..."

With the president sitting alongside his wife, the imam read another verse, "And among the signs of God is the creation of heaven and earth, and the variation in your languages and your colors. Verily, in that are signs for those who know."

Watch the video here:

Trump became the 45th president of United States last week. The 70-year-old Republican billionaire placed his left hand on a bible used by Abraham Lincoln and recited the 35-word oath dating back to the George Washington era before delivering a much-anticipated inaugural address.

COMMENTS (12)

DR BADR AHMED | 1 year ago | Reply READ THE GLORIOUS QURAN AND KNOW THE TRUTH. THANKS

Haji Atiya | 7 years ago | Reply @Durrr: I don't where you got that notion that mutations are always bad because sometimes that is just what the 'doctor ordered' for a living organism to cope with new challenges posed to their survival in an ever changing environment. The fact of the matter is that both genesis and evolution can co-exist and compliment each other.

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ankur tayal | 7 years ago | Reply @Osman Evolution is theory, but incoherent religious texts which were written 1000 years ago are absolute truth. :) Nice !

absar | 7 years ago | Reply Evolution isn't proven yet. Just because they found skeletons of prehistoric apes, it doesn't prove that we evolved from apes.

absar | 7 years ago | Reply Evolution isn't proven yet. Just bacause they found skeletons of prehistoric apes, It doesn't prove that we evolved from apes.

Durrr | 7 years ago | Reply @Raw is war: Evolution is a failure due to lack of mediatory fossils not being found. Furthermore, any mutation to human genome creates diseases as per cancer cells, sickle anemia and many other issues which occur due to mutations. MUTATIONS are ALWAYS BAD, hence, evolution is a failed ideology. Do some research before you talk.

reader | 7 years ago | Reply There were recitations by Jews, Hindu's, Sikhs, Christians, Muslims, from their respective holy books. When will Muslim Countries like Saudi Arabia, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Iran ever allow recitations from the holy books of other religions in Mosques, as was done in the Church where the President of the United States was attending. When will people realize they are just one, no matter what religion, or color they belong to.

SS | 7 years ago | Reply @Raw is war: There is no proved evidence suggesting that humans were evolved.

Osman | 7 years ago | Reply @Raw is war: Where does evolution say that a man and female cannot create human offsprings? Also, evolution is a theory, by the way. I hope you know the distinction between the theory and the reality. But that's just my side note.

Bhaijaan | 7 years ago | Reply And that recitation must have been so soothing that he retracted from all that stuff he said about Muslims.

Raw is war | 7 years ago | Reply “O humankind, We have created you from a single male and female (Adam and Eve) " We now know through evolution that it's not right. Why repeat it?

rich | 7 years ago | Reply truly a great man is trumph as a christin he should not listen to koran ans also bec usa runs on christian faith as per their consitution but he did as a human being wonderis pakistani presedent will listen to the bible recitaion by its christian cictizen who are also native to pakistan unlike muslims in usa somehing to think about

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