I would like to begin in the name of Allah, the exalted and glorious and most gracious and most merciful.
This is the blessed month of Ramadan, and it is a month of blessing from Allah to his creation – a month to ask forgiveness of Allah of his creation, a month o and express gratitude to Allah and his creation. It is a month of reconciliation, a month of patience. Indeed, a month of many blessings.
Prophet muhammad … Said if you have not thanked the people, then you have not thanked god so I would like to thank my attorneys and others at this table who have done much good for me and my family and made my life the last two years very easy.
I cherish their company. They are lovely companions. I thank you.
I would like to thank those who took the time out of their daily lives to came and testified on my behalf, despite the pressure.
I thank the jury for their service , and the court.
I would like to now apologize to the victims and to the survivors. Immediately after the bombing – which I am guilty of if there is any lingering doubt about that let there be no more; I did do it along with my brother – I saw the victims. I learned their names, their faces, their age.
And throughout this trial, more of those victims were given name names, more of those victims had faces and they had very good souls.
Now all those who got up on that stand, on that podium, related to us, to me – i was listening – the suffering that was and the hardship that still is, with strength, with patience, with dignity.
Allah says in the Koran that no soul is burdened with more than he can bear, and you told us just how unbearable it was, this thing I put you through.
I know that there isn’t enough time in the day for you to have related to us everything. I also wish more people had the chance to get up there.
I am sorry for the lives that I’ve taken, the suffering that I have caused, for the damage that I have done. I have done irreparable damage.
I am a muslim. my religion is islam. The god I worship, besides whom there is no other god, is Allah. And I pray to Allah to bestow his mercy upon me.
Allah says in the Koran that for every hardship there is relief, and i pray for your relief, for oyu rhealing, for your wellbeing for your strength.
ANd i ask allah to have mercy on me, on my brother and on my family. I ask allah to bestow his mercy on those present here today, and allah knows best those deserving of his mercy. and i ask allah to have m
I, praise be to allah the lord of the world, thank you.
