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Islam & Philosophy

The Prayer the Machine Cannot Pray

Adnan Abbasi uses medieval metaphysics to understand modern AI.

“Subhan Allah!” (“Glory to God!”) The words escaped my lips as I watched Replit AI transform my half-coherent rambles into a functioning application. Twenty minutes earlier, I had been thinking aloud: “I want to track reading habits, link quotes to themes, maybe build some databases?” And now there was an app. A beautiful app. Complete with structured databases, state management, and search functionality I hadn’t requested but obviously needed. The code was elegant.

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