The ruling on attributing femininity to the angels due to the feminine suffix
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Question:
Is it true that the Arabs, when they saw the feminine suffix in a word, would consider it feminine, and therefore they considered the angels to be female?
Answer:
This is a statement with no basis. Yes.
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says:
Answer:
They say that the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (Jahiliyyah) claim that Allah married from among the jinn, and they gave birth to the angels for Him. This is what the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance say,[As-Saffat 37:158], meaning that He married them, Glorified and Exalted is He. Yes.
Is it true that the Arabs, when they saw the feminine suffix in a word, would consider it feminine, and therefore they considered the angels to be female?
Answer:
This is a statement with no basis. Yes.
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says:
Answer:
They say that the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (Jahiliyyah) claim that Allah married from among the jinn, and they gave birth to the angels for Him. This is what the people of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance say,
And they have claimed between Him and the jinn a lineage
وَجَعَلُوا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ الْجِنَّةِ نَسَبًا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل صحيح أن العرب جعلوا الملائكة إناثًا لأنها تنتهي بتاء التأنيث؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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