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	<description>I&#039;m a Muslim entrepreneur and software engineer writing about life, tech, and faith. On this blog I share what I&#039;m building, how I&#039;m thinking, and where Islam guides me in the digital age. From AI experiments to blockchain projects to reflections on purpose, it&#039;s all part of the same journey.</description>
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		<title>When the AI Goes Quiet: What yesterday’s Cloudflare Outage Revealed About Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The internet felt strangely hollow. Websites wouldn’t load. ChatGPT threw errors. Claude froze. Even X refused to open without a fight. For a few hours, the world went unusually quiet not because humanity slowed down, but because Cloudflare slipped, and with it a huge portion of the global internet stumbled. People described it as “annoying.”...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beyond the Prediction Machine &#124; Guarding the Human Soul in an Age of AI</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Machine learning]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI Ethics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[creative autonomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islamic perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[machine learning risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[model collapse]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes a shift happens in the world that is so quiet, so gradual, and so deceptively convenient that we only recognise its weight once it begins shaping our thinking, our behaviour, and our children. Artificial Intelligence is one of those shifts. People frame it as progress. As empowerment. As a great equaliser. As the moment...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Building Madinah: Lessons from Ummahtech 2025 and Raising Curious Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barakah in teamwork]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fatherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic tech community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madinah system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muslim parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off-Grid Living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raising curious minds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ummahtech 2025]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We arrived on Friday afternoon to help with the setup. Thauban and Ubay came along, sleeves rolled up, curious about everything. There wasn’t any glamour in it just boxes, tables, cables, and brothers working quietly to make sure the event would come together the next day. As we started laying out the tables, it became...]]></description>
		
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		<title>When My Phone Feels Like a Cage in My Pocket</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blue light and sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homesteading and tech balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting and screen time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phone addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screen time effects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling in South Africa]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last night, after Maghrib, the southeaster was howling down from the mountains, rattling the windows in our little place here in Gordon’s Bay. I should’ve been soaking in that salty air, listening to the waves faintly crashing against the shore but instead, I caught myself scrolling. Notifications popping, thumb twitching. Phone addiction has a way...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Pharmacy Within: Teaching My Kids That the Mind and Body Are Connected</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Illness in Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islamic Parenting Reflections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mind-Body Connection in Islam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindfulness and Dhikr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress and Immunity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching Kids Islam]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just came down with the flu the first time in almost a year. It hit me right after dealing with a painful boil, and I can’t help but think the boil weakened my immune system. It reminded me of something I’ve been trying to teach my kids: the body is always listening to the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coach Your AI: Context Engineering That Actually Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pick my Brain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips & Tricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI coaching]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AI prompts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chain of thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[context engineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Motion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[few-shot prompting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[reverse prompting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[role assignment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI isn’t a magician. It’s an eager intern that says yes to everything. To get real results, you need to coach it. Use context, examples, reverse prompting, and role assignment. Push it with harsh feedback. Iterate until it’s useful. Why AI Feels Polite but Useless AI is designed to be helpful. It rarely says no....]]></description>
		
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		<title>You’re Living in an Encrypted World But Tawheed Is the Key</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allah’s will in daily life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[quran reflections]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a world obsessed with what we can see, measure, and control, spiritual awakening in Islam offers a radically different perspective. Most people assume enlightenment means floating in inner peace or knowing all the answers. But true spiritual awakening through Tawheed is about recognizing that this entire world is encrypted – and Allah holds the...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Teaching My Daughter with an LLM We’re Building Together (And the High-Level Problem We Solved)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Learn to Code]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Python]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AI Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building with Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homeschooling Projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LLM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Machine Learning Memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Python for Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unschooling]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve always believed the best way to learn something is to build it. So I decided to teach my eldest daughter, Khawlah, Python not with textbooks or tutorials, but by building something real together: a personalized large language model. It’s not a toy. We’re building a fully functional private LLM system with FastAPI, Supabase for...]]></description>
		
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		<title>You Were Lied To: Business Isn’t for Making Money</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Asif Amod]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[amanah in business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business with purpose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deen and dunya balance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[islam and money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[islamic business ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obeying Allah in business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prophetic business model]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let that sink in. Business isn’t for making money. That’s what we’ve been told, sold, and hypnotized by. But when you peel back the noise and return to the roots not the capitalistic ones, but the divine ones it’s crystal clear: business is for obeying Allah. Sounds wild? That’s only because we’ve been programmed to...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Justice Even When It&#8217;s Hard: The Quiet Strength of Standing Firm</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2025 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[character building in islam]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[teaching kids fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the goodly tree reflections]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just.” Qur’an 5:8 There’s a powerful moment in parenting that tests you. It’s not when your kids misbehave. It’s not when they throw a tantrum or ignore your...]]></description>
		
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