Use AI without losing your soul
“Never become so disconnected through it that you forget your community.”
Muslims should engage with and master AI as a tool while preserving faith, critical thinking, human community, and reliance on qualified scholars rather than treating technology as wisdom or salvation.
The khutbah in 6 steps
- Knowledge and intelligence are divine gifts, illustrated through Adam and Quranic calls to think.
- Human discoveries have benefited society but have also served greed, warfare, and colonialism when detached from faith.
- AI is predictive modeling with vast reach, yet it can reproduce mistakes and biases, making AI literacy essential.
- Uncritical dependence can weaken thinking and harm vulnerable people through psychosis, deception, and isolation.
- Human wisdom, spiritual insight, and community cannot be replicated by chatbots, especially for religious guidance.
- Muslims should master AI as a tool while keeping their souls, communities, scholars, and worship central.
In the khateeb's words
“we cannot be mere consumers of technology. We must rather educate ourselves to come back at the forefront of these things so that we can learn to avoid the harms that are upcoming.”
“the use of AI is taking away our ability to think.”
“our conclusion is that use AI as a tool. We must master it as a community and get ahead of this technology.”
“never fall so dependent on it that you forget that you have a soul. Never become so disconnected through it that you forget your community.”
For the dinner table
The khateeb said knowledge and intelligence are gifts from Allah, so Muslims should not fear science or new technology. AI can be useful, but it can also repeat errors and biases, weaken our thinking, spread deception, and deepen loneliness. We should learn how AI works and use it as a tool without letting it replace our souls, families, communities, or critical judgment. For religious questions, especially fatwas, we should learn from the Quran and Sunnah and ask qualified scholars who can understand our circumstances. The goal is to move forward with wisdom, faith, and human connection.
- Where could AI help our family, and where should we be careful?
- What is one way we can spend more meaningful time with real people this week?
- Why might a scholar need to understand a person before answering a religious question?
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