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Waleed Kadous

Waleed Kadous

Waleed Kadous is an AI engineer and entrepreneur. He is the creator of askansari.ai, an AI assistant for Islamic knowledge; teaches AI to imams; and is a founder of the Islamic Alliance for Safe, Ethical, Responsible AI. He posts on LinkedIn and Medium regularly.

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How Islam Helps Us Think and Work in the Age of AI

How Islam Helps Us Think and Work in the Age of AI

AI is collapsing the execution side of knowledge work by 80% or more—exposing hustle culture as bankrupt and forcing every Muslim professional to ask deeper questions about why we work, what we work on, and what we do with the time we've just been handed back. In this article, we share five Islamic tools—niyyah, tafakkur, istishara, istikhara, and anaat—that train us in exactly the skills the age of AI demands, and offer a framework for stewarding our freed capacity as an amanah for ourselves and the Ummah.

Mohammed Faris · · 14 min