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Does Allah Have Masculine Gender Or Is Allah Gender-neutral?
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.
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Does Allah Have Masculine Gender Or Is Allah Gender-neutral?
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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
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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” ?
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Because in Arabic she is specifically used for females- male is used for unknown things
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But I am using English .
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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?
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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.
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This has been answered in detail by Ghamidi Sahab. Please refer to the video below from 40:35 to 47:02
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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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