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Muslim Women Clothing Taps into Modest Women Clothing

One thing which we should get straight right at the onset of this discussion is that Modest dressers belong to every faith and modest dr...

Sunday, January 31, 2016

The Many Flairs of Islamic T- Shirts

Move over the just do it tag and embrace Just Dua it, one of the many flavours of snappy and jazzy one-liner in sync with the halal quotient of an Islamic T shirt. By definition Islamic T shirts could be categorized and described as pieces of garments resonating certain elements of Islamic ethos and sentiments. Moreover, they could reiterate the idea of Islamic faith which gets stereotyped by media frenzy and present it to the youngsters with a  modern twist making it more acceptable and as well as inviting for a dialogue. The above line is just many of the liners used by manufacturers producing Islamic garments. The other most famous one is ‘One Ummah , One faith’

Talking about Islamic T shirts and quotes one ought to remember that these T shirts again shouldn’t go outside the sharia ruling of Halal. There are many Islamic guidelines to be followed for both the sexes while wearing clothes which could be deemed modest and Islamic. For example one is not supposed to wear garments which reveal skin than which appears naturally, the fabric of which might be transient , any garment which could give the impression of the opposite sex and also one should abstain from wearing clothes which have an imprint, picture or photograph of any living being. Yes, you cant’ offer your salaah wearing your favourite cat shirt or your cute pug T shirt. Similarly there are different rulings for men wherein it is condemned for men to wear silk or silken clothes. Thinking about those Chinese silken thobes, are we?

Now that we are done with the fabrics, Islamic T shirts beside carrying the overtones of faith infuse modernity by teeming it with certain Islamic philosophy and message. This directly also comes in line with the Islamic teachings. As per hadith, it is said that anyone who spreads the message of Islam gets the reward every time, someone reads it, eternally and that continues even after s/he dies. This comes under the banner of Sadq-e-jaria . Many a times these Islamic quotes or T- shirts aren’t too overtly about religion and hence could be sported by anyone.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

What Do You Know of Hijab Fashion?

Does the term Hijab Fashion or Hijab fashion Trends ring in any bells? For starters let’s concentrate on the etymology behind the word Hijab . ‘Hijab’ as most of you might know, comes from the Arabic root word ‘hajaba’ which simply means partition. The other connotation stands for a screen or a curtain. So as per the Islamic diktat a woman is supposed to cover herself modestly wherein hair coverage has been hinted in the text and has now come to be the common understanding amongst various clerics and all and sundry. So basically Hijab attempts to define the modesty of a woman by covering her hair and strictly prohibiting women from exposing their bodies. It also work on a psychological level for men too, when it asks men, “to lower their gaze and guard their modesty”. So it’s safe to say that Hijab has many layers to it and clothes form just one aspect of it.

And now this term has snowballed into meaning headscarf in the popular understanding. Though men too come under the sharia law to observe hijab, it has never garnered as much attention. Hijab for women, earlier used to have a lot of stigma attached to it owing to various cultural stereotypes and laws but now it has slowly begun to be seen as trendy or a fashion fad where more and more girls are attempting it...

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