Sayyid Abd al-Rahman paid no heed to those government claims and proceeded, considering the Graduates' Club a training school for youth in oratory and serious research, and for strengthening the leadership reformist tendencies in its members. The club continued to be active, useful, and serious until its efforts bore fruit on the occasion of the General Graduates' Conference in 1938. Sayyid Abd al-Rahman provided it with his spiritual and material patronage and care. This fourth school took its place in spreading knowledge, reform, and patriotism, and admirably fulfilled its multifaceted and far-reaching mission.

As a result of these teachings and traditions that laid its foundations, the country witnessed an intellectual, scientific, and political renaissance that needed to be focused towards specific goals and spread more widely within Sudan to raise public awareness, and outside Sudan to introduce it. In order for Sayyid al-Imam Abd al-Rahman to achieve this goal, he established a fifth school, the School of Journalism and Publishing. Together with a group of citizens, he founded the Printing and Publishing Company to issue the first daily newspaper in Sudan, "Al-Nil Newspaper," and to print and publish the works of Sudanese writers. This school was the first nucleus for training journalists and writers, and written and published awareness spread among graduates and non-graduates who knew how to read and write. From this school emerged the pioneers of Sudanese journalism in the ten years between 1934-1944. As for the sixth school, which Sayyid al-Imam Abd al-Rahman established to fill a tangible void, it was the Committee for Missions and Educational Aid. He formed a committee from the elite of educators and allocated them a financial budget ranging between two thousand and five thousand Sudanese pounds annually to be spent on deprived talent. Sayyid Abd al-Rahman said in this regard his famous saying: "I wish that material means would not be an obstacle in the path of acquiring knowledge for Sudanese youth who have proven their scientific ability and intellectual brilliance." This sentence became a constitution for the ministries of education since the establishment of the Legislative Assembly.

This committee used to meet to distribute its allocations to Sudanese students in the capital and the provinces throughout the country. Its aid was even sent to adventurous Sudanese youth who had left their families and homeland for the sake of knowledge and to gain glory for Sudan across borders in Egypt, France, and Britain. In these aids, there was literary encouragement from a man of standing in society, at a time when expatriation for the sake of knowledge was considered a sin in the eyes of the rulers. From this committee emerged...

(1) The General Graduates' Conference was the first social, political, and cultural institution in the country. Its political achievements include submitting a memorandum to the Sudanese government in 1943 demanding the right to self-determination for Sudanese after the end of the war. In the cultural field, it established the "Private Education Fund," which announced the opening of non-governmental primary and secondary schools. By 1948, their number exceeded that of government schools. In the social sphere, the Quran began in the village of Al-Kunuz in the heart of Aba Island. (2) Babikr Badri - My Life 24 - Page 402.

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