What AI and Technology Mean for Muslims: Guidance from an Islamic Lens
Team BookMyUmrahTrip
This is the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, and new technologies that are interfering in almost all spheres of life, including work, education, professional relations, and even spiritual practice. Being Muslims and a part of this Duniya, we cannot turn a blind eye to technology, and we cannot go with its use blindly. This is new ground that we must follow with the help of an Islamic prism, based on the Quran and Sunnah ethics and wisdom.
In one of the recent studies on the field of Islamic education, 77.7% of students supported the idea that AI tools enhanced comprehension. This demonstrates how willing young people are to apply AI even in the context of religious learning. But opportunity brings risk along.
Let’s understand what AI and technology can mean for Muslims what strenths it offers, what danger it presents, and how we can use it in a sacred, wise, and neutral way.
Does Islam Have Historical and Intellectual Foundations for Technology?
Islam had never discouraged knowledge, innovativeness, and exploration of the world. Influential contributions were made by Muslim scholars:
Al-Khwarizmi (9th century) introduced algebra and equations, after whose name the word ‘algorithm’ was derived.
The Banu Musa brothers, Al-Jazari, and others introduced early machines and automata, on which modern robotics works.
Other philosophers, such as Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, and Al-Ghazali, created logical, philosophical, and epistemological (knowing knowledge) concepts that lead reasoning, ethics, and decision-making processes today
This legacy means that Muslims are not foreigners in the age of technology we possess a history of innovation. The present-day concept of Islamization of Knowledge is that modern subjects and fields like technology must become subjects of an Islamic worldview (i.e., knowledge is not value-free but must be subject to ethical and spiritual foundations).
