THE Islamic tradition, with its emphasis on amanah (trust), adl (justice), maslahah (public benefit), and khalifah (stewardship), provides a strong ethical foundation.
Muslim civilisation rightly celebrates Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina and Ibn al-Haytham. But we should spend less time merely celebrating and more time examining the conditions that permitted such extraordinary originality to emerge.
What distinguished these thinkers was not merely command of existing knowledge, but the capacity to move beyond its boundaries, develop new explanations and open possibilities previously unavailable.
This is particularly urgent with the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI).
