Many times the question has been asked does God have a gender? According to traditional christian belief God is a man - for example, as depicted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel.

Thinking rationally we know that gender mainly represents or defines identity for purposes of human relationship or basically sexual identity.

For example the labels of father, brother, son and nephew applies exclusively to the masculine gender. Whereas for the feminine gender usual terms are mother, brother, daughter and niece.

So does God figure in all this - question is does God require a gender as a necessary attribute? The clear answer is no.

Anyone having read the Quran knows that Allah is referred to as a “he” implying the masculine gender however we must also consider that in arabic their is no neuter gender everything has to be categorized into masculine or feminine - according to these grammatical rules Allah gender is determined as masculine.