Reddit reply in r/MuslimAcademics: الشيخ عبد القادر الجيلاني وآراؤه الاعتقادية — December 18, 2025 | Ali Shukri Amin

What you're saying is objectively Islamically incorrect.

Typically, when a person relies on a talib al ilm or alim,

Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever is given an opinion not based on knowledge, his sin falls upon the one who gave him the opinion. Whoever directs his brother to a matter of which he knows good lies elsewhere, he has betrayed him.”

Source: Sunan Abī Dāwūd 3657

There is no analogy of reading a fatwa book without knowing the author 😂 What anonymous fatawa books have you ever come across?

When you Google an answer it takes you to a website upon which you can evaluate the author of the information.

Hearing a khutbah without citations is taqlid of the speaker who you presumably know.

None of these are analogies and the first one is a made up scenario. These examples sound AI generated because this is how AI behaves under pressure when pushed by actual thinking & knowledge.

You compared AI to books, paper, fatawa, internet webpages, etc. In all situations there is a human being whose name we know that we evaluate before determining whether we're going to accept or reject their information.

I ask you again:

When I query AI for a fiqh question and then I decide to implement it, WHO am I relying on for the validity of this information?

If you say "the user" then that means AI is not a vehicle for ilm because ilm is taken ONLY from reliable sources. The AI is throwing optimized combinations of words and then the user is taking that as ilm when you are telling me that, actually, it has no discernible source & therefore isn't ilm so you have to then backtrack to find actual ilm.

In which case your AI promotion in Islamic studies becomes haram as 99% of people using these tools do no additional research because they assume the tool is reliable (because of advocates like yourself).