Five AI Tools Worth Learning as a Mufti or Aalim

AI can sound intimidating, especially to someone whose training has been in classical Islamic sciences rather than computers. But the tools that matter most for a scholar's daily work are simpler to use than they sound. Here are five worth starting with.

ChatGPT is the obvious first stop — useful for drafting lesson outlines, summarising long documents, brainstorming khutbah topics, or getting a second opinion on how to explain a concept simply in English. It works best when you treat it as an assistant to think alongside, not an authority to defer to on matters of Islamic ruling.

Translation tools can help bridge vocabulary gaps quickly while you are still building fluency, though they should support your own English rather than replace the practice of speaking and writing it yourself.

Voice-to-text tools let you dictate notes or drafts in your own voice and have them typed out instantly, which is often faster than typing for someone still growing comfortable with an English keyboard.

Grammar and writing assistants such as built-in spelling and grammar checkers catch small errors before they go out in an email, a social post, or a document, quietly building your confidence with each correction.

Presentation and design tools help turn a lesson or a talk into something visual, useful for teaching younger audiences or sharing content online. None of these tools replace scholarship. They simply remove friction from carrying that scholarship further — which is exactly what we practise in Stage 3 of our roadmap, AI for Islamic Scholars.