**4. Findings and analysis**

This study involves 10 Malaysian Malay women entrepreneurs as the informants. A brief background of the informants is as follows:

As stated in **Table 4**, that the Malay women entrepreneurs from the group of upper-middle and middle-middle income class informants who were involved in the Muslim fashion industry are the adults between the ages of 20 to 45 years old. This means that the informants' year of birth is between 1973 and 1998. The informants also lived in main urban cities of Selangor, namely Shah Alam, Bangi, Klang, Kajang, Selayang and Puchong, Petaling Jaya.

The Malay women middle income class entrepreneurs were chosen from diverse background of education. Albeit having considerably good academic qualifications in different disciplines, they have shown relatively similar convictions to religious commitment in implementing Shariah principles in their dress and fashion designs. In fact, their educational background does not limit their quest to exhibit significant manifestations of their faith in thoughts and practices as well as demonstrate their religious responsibility through the Shariah-compliant products. Most of the informants demonstrated significant adherence to the religion of Islam and thus resulting in high commitment to religious obligation in which their prepare more choices in the Islamic dressing design and fashion for Muslims either in the national and global market.

The following discussion is divided into several sub-themes, as to highlight the elements of creativity, innovation and the Shariah compliance in the Muslim fashion industry and how Islam has impacted the lives of the Malaysian Malay women entrepreneurs in their profession as key players of Islamic fashion industry in Malaysia.
