Does Allah Have Masculine Gender Or Is Allah Gender-neutral?

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Epistemology And Philosophy

Does Allah Have Masculine Gender Or Is Allah Gender-neutral?

Posted by Sameer Bhagwat on July 30, 2020 at 12:16 pm

If Allah has masculine gender, then Allah can only be referred to as “He/Him”.

Is there a prohibition to use “She” for Allah ? If Allah doesn’t have gender, why can’t Allah be referred to as “She” ? Why is it offensive to some posters if Allah is referred to in a gender neutral fashion (He or She are interchangeably used in corporate lingo when the gender of the employee is not supposed to be known/assumed) ?

Please give a proper answer to it, instead of editing my question.

Sameer Bhagwat replied 4 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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Does Allah Have Masculine Gender Or Is Allah Gender-neutral?

Sameer Bhagwat updated 4 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
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A Hasan
Contributor July 30, 2020 at 12:50 pm

Allah himself used the pronoun he instead of she. He is gender neutral but – Arabic has no real concept in it for that. I think there is nothing wrong. In Arabic he can refer to an unknown object without specification. She is always specific and implied femininity
- Sameer Bhagwat
  Contributor July 30, 2020 at 1:40 pm
  
  As I said, many in corporate use she to mean generically both male and female when the gender is not known or is not supposed to be assumed.
  
  My question is : Why people get offended if God is referred to as “she” ?
- A Hasan
  Contributor July 30, 2020 at 1:41 pm
  
  Because in Arabic she is specifically used for females- male is used for unknown things
- Sameer Bhagwat
  Contributor July 30, 2020 at 1:42 pm
  
  But I am using English .
- A Hasan
  Contributor July 30, 2020 at 1:43 pm
  
  Then I’m not sure if there is a problem if people know you don’t mean a specific gender- and anyway it is tradition because it is a well known thing- why do you want to change it?
- Sameer Bhagwat
  Contributor July 30, 2020 at 1:48 pm
  
  Some moderator on this forum told me that it is offensive to use “her” for Allah. I asked why .. but got no answer. Just because it is tradition, it doesn’t make it part of their religion.
Umer
Moderator July 30, 2020 at 1:59 pm

This has been answered in detail by Ghamidi Sahab. Please refer to the video below from 40:35 to 47:02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQn9tcHEoq8&t=4290s
Sameer Bhagwat
Contributor July 30, 2020 at 2:08 pm

So, why is it offensive to use “she” for Allah, when using in English ? Ghamidi saab is saying that whatever Arabians were using Qur’an used the same language.

By the same logic, even God/Bhagwaan/Ishwar being used for Allah will offend muslim people.

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