WILMINGTON: US President-elect Joe Biden addressed a deeply divided nation Saturday night, turning to the challenges ahead by beginning his victory speech in gratitude for the almighty.
“Alhamdulillah,” was the first word that was said in the speech by Biden, whom outgoing president Donald Trump had accused of ‘secretly being a Muslim’ following the first presidential debate, further underlining the former vice president’s bid to become the second Muslim president of the US after Barack Obama.
“Bismillah,” added Biden in his speech that vowed new beginnings in the spirit of compromise as he asked supporters of Trump to give him a chance and called on all Americans to turn the page from what he described as a “grim era of jahiliyah.”
Biden who had responded to Trump’s pre-election allegations regarding his religious identity, and demand that his birth certificate be investigated, with one word ‘astaghfirullah’ in September, promised that he would seek to unify Americans in what he aspired to create as a ‘dar-ul-sanity’.
“Jazakallah,” was his response amidst slogans and global messages of support for him, especially from across the Muslim countries, many of which he had shared thousands of unmanned aerial links with.
Biden also vowed to take along the 35% of American Muslims who voted for Trump, and said together they’ll help make the US a country of peace.
“Inshallah,” US president-elect Joe Biden concluded.
