In the “how to keep house” training unit of the Muslim Girls Training and General Civilization Class, we are taught to clean strategically, based on proven scientific methods, to rid the home of dangerous bacteria, viruses, and other germs that cause illness. Now, with the rapid, global spread of infectious disease, the world has come to recognize the supreme value of cleaning, sanitizing, and disinfecting for the preservation of life. Cleaning has everything to do with making wise decisions to carefully guard, protect, and secure the lives of everyone in your household.

“Even if it’s a room, we’ve got to keep it clean because cleanliness is not next to godliness, cleanliness is godliness.”

– The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

“The baby is secured in its mother’s womb, but when it comes into its new environment it cries because it is insecure. The baby is secured by the love and warmth from the mother’s body; it is secured by the milk that flows from its mother’s breast; it is also secured by the loving care of a mother who makes sure that the needs of the baby to be fed, to be changed, to be in a clean and safe environment are met. All of this must be provided by the mother, with the help of the father.”

– The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan ‘Family’…From the Perspective of Children May 27, 2014

Duty First and Foremost to Allah and Understanding Self

“The women in Islam are the most important work for the Messenger and the Nation. Anything that corrupts the woman, anything that makes an improper use of women is destructive to the national aim of God and His Christ because their aim is that we must become a new people—a new creature. And we can never become a new people and new creatures unless we have a new woman. And we cannot have a new woman without a new mind in that woman. And that mind that is being offered to the woman is the mind of God, Himself.”

-The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan  A New Mind: A New Woman December 19, 1998

“The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that 75 percent of his work was with the woman, only 25 percent with the man-because when you teach a man, you teach an individual, but when you teach a woman, you reform a nation.”

– The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

“Sewing is not just sewing. It is learning how to cut your life out of a pattern after God.”

– The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan

Sewing, one of the Seven Training Units of the M.G.T. & G.C.C. as named by Allah in the person of Master Fard Muhammad, employs the innate creative ability that each sister possesses. It is a tool that, while being mastered, will allow us to not only become an instrument of Allah for service to our families, communities, and our Nation; it will also allow each of us to properly care for ourselves spiritually as well as physically.