3. The Quran encourages women to learn and work
Muslims believe that the first verses revealed to Prophet Muhammed were the first five verses in Surat Al-Alaq ("The Clot"), which orders people to seek knowledge.
Seeking knowledge is thus obligatory for every Muslim, male and female.
"It is the duty of every Muslim man and woman to seek knowledge," the prophet is quoted as saying.
It seems only fitting then that the University of Al Qarawiyyin in Morocco, the world's oldest-standing universities, which has the world's oldest library, was founded by a Muslim woman in the 850s.
The Quran also encourages women to work and earn money by entitling them to fair pay.
''And their Lord responded to them, 'Never will I allow to be lost the work of [any] worker among you, whether male or female; you are of one another'."
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