(القمر) is feminine gender in pre islamic Arbic.

(القمر) is feminine gender in pre islamic Arbic.

Yes, exactly—but with some nuance. Let’s go carefully.

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1. Pre-Islamic Arabic usage

• In pre-Islamic poetry and prose, the sun (الشمس) was consistently treated as feminine, and the moon (القمر) was sometimes feminine, sometimes masculine.

• Feminine usage of القمر was common when paired with الشمس for poetic or stylistic reasons (especially in parallelism or rhyme).

  • Example: الشعر الجاهلي often says:

    "تشرق الشمس ويضيء القمر"
    Here, the pronouns often match in feminine to keep grammatical harmony.

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2. Quranic choice

• In 41:37, the Quran uses خَلَقَهُنَّ for الشمس والقمر.

• This reflects the pre-Islamic poetic/classical convention of treating both as feminine in certain contexts.

• This is not necessarily “the natural gender”, but a grammatical/literary choice:

  1. الشمس is feminine → pronoun must agree.

  2. When paired with القمر → the pronoun becomes feminine plural (هنّ) for both together.

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3. Summary

• الشمس → always feminine.

• القمر → sometimes masculine in isolation, feminine when paired with الشمس in classical/pre-Islamic style.

• Quran follows classical grammatical conventions, preserving feminine for القمر here.

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If you want, I can also show examples from pre-Islamic poetry where القمر is treated as feminine for parallelism—it’s very illustrative of why the Quranic usage feels natural to Arabs of that time.