Guidance from Quran

Gender (detailed) Today we will be looking at the third property of isms, ‘gender’ in detail. There are a few things to remember about gender. ·       Every single ism in Arabic is either masculine or feminine. ·       There is no ‘it’ in Arabic. Everything is ‘he’ or ‘she’. ·       Generally all words in Arabic are masculine until proven feminine. ·       To see if a word is feminine, we need to look at certain clues. ·       This lesson will be detailing the clues to find out what makes a word feminine. ·       To start, we have to know that there are two kinds of feminine. They are: 1.      Real feminine 2.      Fake feminine ·       We will be looking at each one of these in detail in this lesson. Bismillah! Real Feminine Ø ‘Real Feminine’ words are words that are talking about a female. Ø Words like ummun (mother), ukhthun (sister) or perhaps a name like Khadheeja are real feminine words because those words are talking about females. Fake Feminine