and behaviour, to the same extent of men. Further, so many samples of mature women have emerged on the scene in history of Islam. There are some who even hold that ground for moral growth and capability of women for this motion is more and greater than men.
Seeking Knowledge
One of most valuable man's characteristics being one's power and aptitude to acquire cognition and knowledge... cognition of oneself, of the world in which one lives, and of secrets and mysteries concealed in the existence... etc.
Man can acquire all this cognition through reasoning, detection and witnesses, gaining perfection of existence for oneself within the range of this cognition. In the Islamic Law this perfection has not spared classification, rather all classes and species of mankind have been invited to knowledge-seeking.
Allah, when praising the knowledgeable and learned and reproaching the illiterate in general, says: "Allah will exalt those who believe among you, and those who have knowledge, to high ranks." "58:11"
In another place He said: "Say "unto them, O Mohammed": what! can those who know be equal to those who know not?" "39:9"
Furthermore, the Almighty Allah regards teaching of people "rules of religion" to be one of goals of prophets, without limiting this to a certain class of them, as stated in the following verse: "Even as We have sent among you a Prophet from amongst yourselves who reciteth unto you Our signs and purifieth you and teacheth you the Book and the Wisdom; and teacheth you that which ye did not know." "2:151"
More than this, the words and conduct of the Imams, contain so much encouragement and
persuasion toward knowledge-seeking.
If we get over the following general traditions: