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Is AI the Dajjal? The Untold Truth About Islam & Artificial Intelligence ft. Shahbaaz Khan | TBT

27 Oct 2026 · 48 min

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Is Artificial Intelligence inherently biased against Muslims, and could it be the ultimate theological threat? In this episode of the Thought Behind Things podcast, I sit down with Shehroz Khan, Project Head at Ilmverse (a global initiative by SISL, Al-Qasimi University), to discuss how they built a trusted Islamic AI companion using 8.5 million pages of authenticated religious texts.

While frontier AI models like ChatGPT and Claude are powerful, they are built with Western worldviews and often fail to provide culturally or religiously accurate counseling for Muslims. We dive deep into the dangers of relying on Western AI for Islamic knowledge, the monumental task of scanning and cleaning centuries of Fiqh and Hadith into a RAG pipeline, and the controversial debate: Is AI the Dajjal? We also discuss why democratizing Islamic scholarship is the only way to bypass fake scholars and gatekeepers who exploit the masses. If you want to know how the Muslim world is preparing for the intelligence era, watch this until the end!

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