The Halal Lifestyle of Muslim Working Women

Abstract

The role of women has changed and has even reached critical heights today, especially as far as the working world is concerned. The kind of job they embark upon also influences their way of life. The question is whether the lifestyle that is supposed to be practised by Muslim working women today complies with the Shari’ah requirements stipulated for Muslim women. At the same time, the halal lifestyle concept has been increasingly accepted universally. The halal lifestyle concept focuses more on a way of life that prioritises and practises all that is commanded in Islam. A halal lifestyle is one of the elements in the halal concept and currently, it focuses more on the food, medical, self-treatment and hotel sectors. The aim of this paper was to examine the lifestyle of Muslim working women in the halal context. How can the halal concept be assimilated into women’s career-lifestyle? Hence, this paper hoped to highlight the halal lifestyle concept of Muslim working women based on two objectives. The first objective was to identify the halal lifestyle concept among Muslim working women through published academic materials and the second objective was to come up with a halal lifestyle framework for Muslim working women. This working paper adopted the interpretive qualitative analysis using past literature and analysed from an Islamic perspective.