RE: Why God is not a girl...
August 9, 2012 at 2:04 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2012 at 2:05 am by Rayaan.)
In Islamic belief, though, Muslims do not think of Allah as having a gender as we humans do. He is not feminine, masculine, solid, liquid, gas, nor anything that we know of from our experiences as one verse in the Quran says, "Say: He is Allah, the One and Unique; Allah, the Eternal, Absolute; He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; And there is none like unto Him." (Surah 112:1-4). So, this means that the Islamic model of God is that He is unique and He is not like any other created thing that we know of. We are not supposed to think of Him as being a male nor a female because we cannot compare Him to human beings nor anything else that we seen in our lives. Similarly, we cannot even know His primary nature either - "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision. He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things" (Surah 6:103).
The Quran uses "He" when referring to Allah probably because there is no gender-neutral pronoun in Arabic the same way that there isn't one in English (and other languages as well). We do not take the words "He" and "Him" literally just like none of us would take the phrase "the hands of a clock" and think that the word "hands" are talking about actual hands.
The Quran uses "He" when referring to Allah probably because there is no gender-neutral pronoun in Arabic the same way that there isn't one in English (and other languages as well). We do not take the words "He" and "Him" literally just like none of us would take the phrase "the hands of a clock" and think that the word "hands" are talking about actual hands.
