{"id":3441,"date":"2014-03-02T07:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T07:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2014-03-02T07:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T07:31:05","slug":"bangladesh-hosts-first-hijab-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/03\/02\/3441\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Hosts First Hijab Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/bangladesh-Hosts-First-Hijab-Fair.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A Bangladeshi non-governmental women group has held a four-day hijab fair in Bangladesh, offering Muslim women the latest fashion of the Islamic headscarf and sending an out loud message that hijab is a part of Muslim women life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOur aim to organize the \u2018Hijab Fair\u2019 is to reach message all people that hiajb is sign of modesty,\u201d Yahia Md Amin, the event manager at Mercy Mission, told OnIslam.net at the hijab fair in Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Amin was speaking at the first hijab fair to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fair, held from February 26- March 1, is organized by Mercy Mission Bangladesh at WVA (Women&#8217;s Volunteer Association) Auditorium in Dhaka.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fair was attended by lucrative Hijab-stores of the city which shared their latest products of hijab and modest fashion for Muslim women.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Leading hijab and Abaya makers and hijab designer firms have also participated in the Hijab fair.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Along with the Hijab stalls, other activities were marked during the fair, including offering Da`wah books, food, jewelries, and handicrafts.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019ve been wearing hijab for the last four years due to religious and spiritual reasons,\u201d Dr. Nasrin Nahar MBBS, M. Phil, who works as a physician in a government hospital in Dhaka, told OnIslam.net.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI have attended this hijab fair to see different style of hijab and buy some hijab,\u201d she added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islam sees hijab as an obligatory code of dress, not a religious symbol displaying one\u2019s affiliations.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Acknowledging the fact that hijab was an obligation on Muslim women, Nahar asserted that donning hijab was a personal preference by her.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMy husband and anybody not to bind to me wearing hijab,\u201d she also said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Lucrative Business<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Held to encourage Muslim women to don fashionable and modest veils, the fair gave a platform for a lucrative business in Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHijab making and sales is not only my business this is way for me to boost up my Iman also,\u201d Hanium Maria Chowdhury, owner of Tahoor and fashion designer, told OnIslam.net.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOur aim to wearing full jilbab of woman from non-hijab through consultancy.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chowdhury added that the number of women donning Islamic headscarf has been increasing day by day in Bangladesh.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">According to her, the phenomenon reflected a good trend among Bangladeshi women.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nusrat Rahman, partner of Identity, an online hijab sales house, agreed that the hijab fair offered them an opportunity to gain virtue.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHijab making and sales is my business as well as to earn sawab means virtue through the hijab sales,\u201d Nusrat Rahman\u00a0 told OnIslam.net at her stall in the hijab fair in Dhaka.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other attendants at the fair have expressed joy over the decision to hold the country\u2019s first hijab fair.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHijab is my identity and Allah asked to me to do wearing hijab,\u201d Sania Alam (18), student of eleven class, told this OnIslam.net at venue of Hijab Fair 2014 in Dhaka.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018I come to the hijab fair just to see the different fashion of hijab and abaya in the fair, Tania Anwar, who holds MA in English, added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> OnIslam<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Bangladeshi non-governmental women group has held a four-day hijab fair in Bangladesh, offering Muslim women the latest fashion of the Islamic headscarf and sending an out loud message that hijab is a part of Muslim women life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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