Why do we quote Allah (swt) as – Him/His ?
The Arabic word ‘Allah’ has no gender. The Arabic grammar has only two genders, male and female and male gender is of two types: 1. Masculine Haqeeqi i.e. Real, which is used to denote the masculine gender in humans, animals. 2. Masculine Majazi i.e. Unreal, wherein it is used as Masculine but in reality it is not so e.g. (Angels) Malak, Layl (Night), Bab (door). The word Allah (swt), too falls in the second category i.e. Masculine Majazi. The English language has got three genders; male, female and neutral. So if we translate the Arabic word ‘huwa’ into English, it can be translated as ‘he’ or ‘it’. And the Arabic word ‘hiya’ can be translated as ‘she’ or ‘it’. Allah (swt) is unique and cannot be referred as ‘it’ in English, since Allah (swt) has no gender, neither male nor female or neutral.
