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Asiya (One who tends to the weak, One who heals) is considered to be one of four great, noble, and pious women in Islamic history. It is not clear in Egyptian history if Asiya is equivalent to Hatshepsut, but she was probably Mutnedjmet. In the Qur'an, she was the wife of the Pharaoh (Fira'un) and was the one who adopted Moses (Musa) after Moses was found floating in the Nile river. According to Islam, she will be among the first women to enter "Janna" (Paradise) because she not only accepted Musa's monotheism over the Pharaoh's beliefs, s she was also given a message from the Angel Gabriel, warned Moses and thus saved his life.

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