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Taken from Time.com (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1115600,00.html):

When they found open ground, families began offering special naful prayers,
while others knelt on the roadside and began reciting the Quran. Loudspeakers in
the mosques urged the faithful to seek forgiveness. "I thought doomsday had
fallen," said Abdur Rashid Hajjam, as he came out of prayers at a Sufi shrine.
"Pray for our brethren who died today and thank Allah for we are safe," said the
imam at Illahi Bagh mosque on the outskirts of Srinagar, which lies in
Indian-ruled Kashmir. "Whatever the scientists say, our Prophet said that when
this earth is replete with sin, this would happen." As evening fell, the
thanksgiving prayer, Nimaz-e-shukrana, echoed from every mosque in Kashmir.

SubhanAllah. May Allah have mercy and favor upon them. Ameen. This is the month of mercy...inshaAllah, this will be some sort of healing.

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