Genuine question, why is God referred to as a he? Shouldn’t God be beyond gender and sexuality?,(reply>), @Arvind Everything in Arabic (and any Semitic language) is either masculine or feminine even objects like the sun and moon. So ‘it’ doesn’t exist in Arabic. It’s either masc or fem I.e. him/her. Using the word ‘it’ would be a mistranslation. Also the word ‘it’ implies an inanimate object and one of Allah’s names is Al Hayy The Ever Living. Actually what’s interesting about the Quran is Allah speaks about Himself as a He, We, I, Allah, etc.<br><br>So to be safe translators all just use the literal translation. The Quran is very direct, many verses talk about it being in Arabic Ex: “Indeed, We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an that you might understand.” (12:2). When you read the Quran you never feel God is a man, nor that He’s more than one (even in the English translation) Ex: <br><br>“˹He is˺ the Originator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you spouses from among yourselves, and ˹made˺ mates for cattle ˹as well˺—multiplying you ˹both˺. There is nothing like Him, for He ˹alone˺ is the All-Hearing," All-Seeing.” (<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOKCNUqbpH0&amp;t=42m11s"">42:11</a>)<br><br>Also in Islam a translation of the Quran isn’t considered the real Quran it’s a translation of Allah’s words. Allah’s words are in Arabic so most muslims learn to read Arabic young or when they convert to Islam.<br><br>Long but I hope this helped.",(reply>), @Arvind I enjoy the conversation. Both in Arabic and in english the term 'he' is used while referring to God, not in just the tense of a male or female world. <br><br>That said, we could be using the phrase "entity" or rephrasing the word to not include he/she at all like we do anything that doesn't have a gender.  We'd even have a hard time figuring out how to (for example)  give objects a gender in English...  Try forming a sentence about a coffee table while using he/she about the table, it's hard. <br> <br>If it was to be that God does not have a gender, scripture would have been written differently. <br><br>Example we may say the term 'mother nature' because it gives life -  but we don't commonly speak of it as "she" or "her".,(reply>), Thank you all for your response. Follow up question, if it’s a linguistic problem then shouldn’t we use ‘it’ to refer to God? Because unlike Arabic, ‘he’ in English signifies male gender. And if God can’t be plural, ‘they’ is out of the question.,(reply>), It is just linguistic rule. In Arabic "He" is the default pronoun to refer to both gender and genderless things. This linguistic rule is not unique to Arabic language. Many more languages share this.,(reply>), @Lovely Than why are you calling him 'he'?