This audio is brought to you by Muslim Central.com. You're going to. Thank you. Asamalicum everyone, during my golf tour in Kuwait I was giving a lecture and somebody asked a really cool question and I thought I should share the answer with everyone.

The question was that in reading the Quran you find that God uses the word he for himself, like he is the creator of the skies and the earth or he

is one and the word he is obviously male so how can we use a male word for God

even though Allah is beyond gender and so that's that was a pretty cool question I thought and very well thought out so I decided to make this video and share with you some thoughts on how to address this problem.

First and foremost we have to understand that the Arabic language works differently

than the English language.

In the English language you have three options.

You can use he or you can use she and you can use it. He obviously has a male

connotation, she is a female connotation, it is beyond gender, so you would have the

choice of it but the only problem is the word it is for inanimate objects.

So it would be inappropriate for Allah

because it necessitates the assumption

that it's a non-living thing.

None of those three options can truly do justice

to the word for God. Now, shows this kind of gives me yet more

confidence and reminds me even more why Allah shows the Arabic language for

his revelation. In the Arabic language things work very differently from English. First and

foremost they don't have the pronoun it they only have he and she

whoa and hea there is no inanimate object pronoun that is gender neutral.

There's no such thing in Arabic.

The second thing to note is that in Arabic, grammatically speaking,

the word he, hoo-a serves two functions. Now please pay attention to this part because it gets a little tricky.

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