Progress September 10 1971 By Messenger Elijah Muhammad

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PROFILE AND PURPOSE THE F A C T T H A T I S L A M I C U N I V E R S I T Y i s f o u n d e d by T h e H o n o r a b l e Elijah M u h a m m a d , through t h eguidance of Allah, holds bright p r o m i s e f o r all y o u n g black students. T h e great urgency and need forced u p o n Messenger M u h a m m a d t o build this center is due t o the ignorancy and lack o f self k n o w l e d g e o f his people and others, that he thinks w i l l g o a long w a y t o w a r d s better understanding a n d r e l a t i o n s b e t w e e n t h e N a t i o n s of t h e earth.

SCIENCE Of t h e b e g i n n i n g o f e d u c a t i o n of t h e p e o p l e of e a r t h .

MATHEMATICS T h e science and origin of m a t h e m a t i c s .

RELIGION T h e v a r i o u s origins of religions and w h y Islam.

MEDICINE Students will be under the most highly learned doctors that the institution can acquire.

T H I S U N I V E R S I T Y ' S - I D E A S A N D HOPES are t o u s e scholars and s c i e n t i s t s of a l l n a t i o n a l i t i e s . T h i s idea of M e s s e n g e r M u h a m m a d ' s of a u n i v e r s i t y of t h i s t y p e i s o n e t h a t a l l N a t i o n s a n d races w o u l d agree w i t h M e s s e n g e r M u h a m m a d o n t h e n e c e s s i t y of s u c h a center f o r his people.

HEALTH ' W e m u s t have these such courses, and the study o f drugs, a s M e s s e n g e r M u h a m m a d teaches against drugs f o r our health, t h a t w e m i g h t learn t o live according t o t h e l a w of nature. For these courses.

Messenger M u h a m m a d desires the best doctors obtainable.

T H E B A S E OF T H E T E A C H I N G S of t h e U n i v e r s i t y i s t h e k n o w l e d g e of self and o t h e r s and self respect and respect f o r o t h e r s

THIS CENTER IS DESIGNED T O house 1 0 , 0 0 0 - ( t e n thousand) students o f girls and boys and middle aged and aged people w h o w a n t t obe educated, f ti s designed also for a hospital, technology college, a n d a childrens' hospital a n d nursery. This w o u l d r e l e a s e — s a y s M e s s e n g e r M u h a m m a d — s o m e of t h e burdens of t h e w h i t e people's institutions o f this kind f o r o u r patients. But, Messenger M u h a m m a d believes that the w h i t e people should a i d him, financially, t o build such a n i n s t i t u t i o n a s he and his people are p o o r a n d w o u l d n o t be able t o d o so; o r a n y o n e w h o has s y m p a t h y f n r

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F U R T H E R I D E A S OF M E S S E N G E R M U H A M M A D OF A N E D U C A T I O N A L C E N T E R FOR HIS P E O P L E : T h i s University, Educational Center, i s being designed, n o t t o disgrace Chicago and its people, but t o increase the beauty of Chicago and its people. Messenger M u h a m m a d desires t o purchase t h e fast highrise. w h e r e m a n y of his people are n o w lodging, and t h e n build t h e drop off t o these highrises, that m u s t taper off t o taller buildings of t h i s n e w ground of a n Educational Center.

T H E T A L L E S T BUILDING, that is his idea t o build o n this around.