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Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Class (MGT & GCC) is the all-female training program of the Nation of Islam. It is often considered to be the counterpart for girls and women to the Fruit of Islam.
History
The Muslim Girls Training & General Civilization Class is one of the institutions established in 1933 by Wallace Fard Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam.[1] He also established the University of Islam schools and the Fruit of Islam in that year before vanishing in 1934.[2] The classes were developed to teach domestic duties like cooking and nutrition, sewing, cleaning, housekeeping, child-rearing, religious instruction and the role of women in Muslim life and even personal hygiene and self-defense. Classes are generally held at least once a week. [3]
An example of their class song is as follows:
- We're the M.G.T and the G.C.C.,
- Muslim Girls in Training we are striving to be!
- We're determined to gain respect,
- Rear our children, make them the best.
- Caring for our homes and our families, too,
- We, the M.G.T., are appealing to you.
- Let us rise and make nations see
- Righteous women in unity!
- E-E-E-Elijah Muhammad!
- Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class! Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class!
- We are taught to bathe and pray five times a day.
- Following Elijah to our Saviour, we say,
- Thanks to Allah, Al-Hamdulillah!
- For our Leader and Messenger!
- E-E-E-Elijah Muhammad!
- Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class! Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class!
- E-E-E-Elijah Muhammad!
- Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class! Oh, Elijah, Elijah's Class![4]
References
- ↑ Claude Andrew Clegg II, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, St. Martin's Griffin, 1998, page 29
- ↑ Arna Wendell Bontemps and Jack Conroy, Anyplace But Here, University of Missouri Press (2nd ed.), 1997, pages 219-222
- ↑ Edward E. Curtis, Black Muslim Religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975, University of North Carolina Press 2006, page 146
- ↑ "prayer card". Retrieved 2013-05-15.