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Hu (Arabic: هُوَ male third person pronounce) is a pronoun to refer to God in Sufism. Literally, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic for the English third person).

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Hu (Arabic: هُوَ male third person pronounce) is a pronoun to refer to God in Sufism. Literally, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic for the English third person).

== Usage == In Sufism Huwa is the pronoun used for Allah or God. Allah Hu means "God, Just He!" In Arabic Allah means God and with Hu, as an intensive added to Allah, means "God himself." Hu is also found in a variant of the first part of the Islamic credo, wherein lā ilāha illā Allāh "there is no god but God," is shortened to lā ilāha illā Hu(wa) meaning "There is no God but He(is)".

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