Why Allah created Genders?

First of all with Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, when He speaks about Insan, this is gender neutral. Okay? Insan? Yeah. You are Insan. Nas, not speaking to man or woman. When we speak about Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, we are not speaking about masculine or feminine. Qur'an has names for Allah and the name, Ism al-Adham of Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, Ism al-Jalala and all His names, different names which are going to be basing our lecture on right now.

Mainly in the Qur'an, when you speak about Allah, when He is in terms of third person, when you say He, what do we say? Huwa. You say huwa, right? We don't say hiya, but that doesn't mean masculine huwa. So we're going to be speaking about Arabic grammar here. The Arabic grammarians agree that the words they use within Arabic Huwa, here is gender neutral as well. It's not because it's a masculine term, it's the default term.

Yani. Sometimes the Qur'an may refer to Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, as "that", right? Out of respect, though, you don't say "it". You don't call Allah "it", Subhana wa Ta'ala. But we say Huwa. "La ilaha illa Huwa" (2:255). We don't call Him "father" like in Christianity. In Christianity there is more of this sense of oh, in Islam there is patriarchy, we will speak about that. There is more of this patriarchal sense when it comes to God being the father. But in Islam, we don't have that. He is no father. He doesn't have a son, not a father to any son. He hasn't begotten any children. He is not a father of any of us. He is upon us. Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, is above all gender.

So first of all, we don't have that problem within Islam. Allah has no gender, Allah has no body. Allah is not man or woman or any of that. Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, does have though, masculine and feminine names.

These names which have been derived from the words that Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, has used in the Qur'an, from the words that the Prophet and the Imams called Allah upon with and from His attributes, the things that He does in the world, His actions. Several of these names. He has loads of names. And we all know about Allah's 99 names, right? But He has even more names than that. There are several names. 99 names is one of the ahadith. But there are many names you can call upon Allah, and you can connect to Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, through His different names. He has different names for different things.

Allah is One. Allah isn't a body. Allah is not split into parts. Allah is One. He is simple, as in He is not in parts. You can't take a part of Him away. But He has these names. Which names am I talking about? We say bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Rahim. Those are some of His names. Depending on which name you need, sometimes your situation would call upon a certain name. This is the power that you want to manifest right now. This is what you want to see in your life. When you are in trouble and you call it "Ya Fattah", open the doors for me. Okay. So you are calling upon the right names.

Ya'ni. When I'm sick. I'm a big baby, when I'm sick, my wife will tell you guys that. It's funny. I'll be sick, and I need to call upon God's strong names. When I'm sick, I just shout, "Ya Jabbar". And I feel better. But it's a very powerful name. "Ya Shadid Al-Iqab". And my wife gets scared. She goes, no, no, "Ya Rauf! Ya Rahim!" Then we have to balance that out. She balances it out. So depending on what situation you are in, you would call upon those names.

Allah's names are split into two. Everything is like this. Everything's in cycles. You have summer, you have winter, you have man, you have woman, you have yin, you have yang, okay? You have these reflections, these cycles. Everything is this way. With Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala's names it's the same thing. You have the Names of Beauty and the Names of Majesty. That's the category of God's names.

So God is One, then you split the names into two. The names of Jamal and the names of Jalal. Jamal and Jalal. Is everyone with me so far? Good. Jamal and Jalal, Beauty and Majesty. Those are the two reflections. Those are the two main categories of God's attributes. And then they are manifested into the world.

What are some of the names of Jamal like I just mentioned, right? Why when I'm sick, I call out the names of Jalal. Then my wife called out the names of Jamal to balance it out. Because maybe the names of Jalal are scary sometimes. You say Al-Jabbar, the Forceful One. Al-Hakim, the Judge. Al-Qawy, the Strong. These are all names of Jalal, names of Majesty. They are more absolute. They have an absolute personality to them. Whereas the names of Jamal like what, Al-Rauf, Ar-Rahim, the Most Merciful, these names are more beautiful names, kind names. Al-Rahman, the Merciful. This is what you call upon when you want to be forgiven for your sins. You don't call upon Al-Jabbar when you are doing tawba. You are scared, right now, you call upon Al-Wadud, Ar-Rauf, Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim.

So these are the different categories and the names are split. That's why you have Heaven, you have Hell. You see? You see this dichotomy? This is all throughout the Islamic tradition. This is even outside the Islamic tradition. So Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala, from that world, the real world, He manifested into this world. What did He manifest? He manifested the Names of Jamal and the Names of Jalal. How?

The names of Jamal, manifested into Eve, and the names of Jalal manifested into Adam. And so Jamal became woman, and Jalal became man. This is the explanation as to why Islam cannot accept homosexuality. An actual homosexual girl was actually asking me last year. She is like, Why are you Muslims against it? I said, I will explain to you from my perspective, okay? I said, I'm a Muslim, of course. My main thing life is to know Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala. Okay, I understand.

And then I explained this. Allah has names. Jamal and Jalal. Names of Beauty and Majesty. They were manifested into this world. The names of Jalal became man. The names of Jamal became woman. So Majesty became man and beauty became woman. So man is absolute, and woman is infinite. That's what it is. Infinity and absoluteness. Okay?

How do I get to know Allah? One: Tawhid. How do I come back to Tawhid, to One? I must bring Jamal and Jalal together. You understand? You see where I'm going with this? So by the way, man has Jamal in him, it doesn't mean you are completely Jalal. No. You have feminine aspects within yourself. You have Jamal and woman has Jalal. But the predominant is Jalal, and the predominant in woman is Jamal. And the way that you are to bring them together, to be complimentary, as the brother was saying, how do we compliment each other? Tawhid! You have to bring Jamal and Jalal together. You can't be this is what homosexuality is. What homosexual sexuality? It's an imbalance. It's too much, jalal, jalal or Jamal, jamal.

You can't have that. You can't have Tawhid with just beauty or just majesty. You need to bring beauty and majesty together. And then you understand what intercourse is. How was the world created? The world, we say, came from Allah's Mercy, right? It was Allah's Mercy that created the world. Allah's Rahma. What's Rahma? What kind of name? Ism, Jamal? Right? So the world came from Beauty.

Man is surrounded by feminine aspect. His creation comes from the feminine, Rahma. What is your womb called in Arabic? Rahm. Your rahm, the woman's womb is a manifestation of God's Rahma. Man doesn't have the womb. The rahm comes from Rahma and then Subhana Allah, it creates. So then it goes back to Al-Khaliq, the Creator. The same way Allah created us from His mercy.

So man is surrounded by the feminine. He's overcome by it, encompassed by it. And man is supposed to learn from women these feminine aspects that will complete him to go to Allah, Subhana wa Ta'ala. Allah gave man certain dominion over women in this dunya. They have different roles which we are going to speak about. The fact that they are different. They have different roles. Man had dominion over women, but man, over history, over civilization rebelled against Allah. Man rebelled against God. Man let power come to his head. Man's ego took over, so man was destroyed.

And as woman watched on, and saw a man rebelled against God, woman rebelled against man. Instead of woman staying in the way that she was supposed to be, she saw the hypocrisy of man and decided: he rebelled against God. I will rebel against man. And then you have society as it is today, where you don't know what we are anymore.