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www.alhakam.org AL HAKAM | Friday 7 November 2025 | Issue CCCXCIX Ahmadiyya Archive & Research Centre (ARC), 22 Deer Park Road, London, SW19 3TL, UK info@alhakam.org | ISSN 2754-7396
When machines speak as gods: The illusion of divine dialogue How GitaGPT is attempting to blur the lines of technology and theology Imagine having the ability to directly communicate with the divine, not through subtle signs and mediums, but through direct dialogue. Historically, this has been an honour reserved for the most sacred and holiest of people: the Prophets of God and His saints. But what if there was a new method which democratised and disrupted this bond of sacred communication? This is what various AI chatbots, such as Gita GPT, purport to do. The model is simple; users can ask “god” questions, and AI replies using sacred and religious texts as well as pre-trained data – though this remains an important caveat. This seems pleasant and harmless at first, as all it does is make spiritual wisdom accessible to the masses. But the question must be asked: what happens when humans attempt to digitalise divinity?
The technology Trained on the Bhagavad Gita, these large language models are presented as chatbots to simulate conversations between humans and “gods”. People can ask questions or converse with it and receive tailor-made responses based on the hundreds of verses of the Bhagavad Gita. Some of these chatbots are so advanced that they supposedly answer in the voice of “Lord Krishna” himself. This might seem eerily similar to the story of the Holy Quran in which the Bani Isra’il made a mechanical golden calf for worship that produced a similar sound
Hadith-e-Rasul – Sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa
Joyful activities on the Day of Eid ْ َ َّ َ َ َ َ َ �ٰ َأ �َّن َأَبَا َبَْك ٍٍر ـ رضى الّٰلہ عنه ـ ََدَخَل،َع ْْن ََعاِئَِشَة ّ� َ ََ َ َ َ ْ َ َ َ َ اِم ِِم ًًنى ِ اِن ِفِي َأَّي ِ َعَل ْْيَها َو ِِعْنَدَها َجا ِِرَيَت �ٰ َّ �ّ ّ ّل َ � َ ُُت َ َْ َ الَّن ِِب �ُّي ص ى الّٰلہ عليه َو،اِن ِ اِن َوَتْض ِِرَب ِ َد ِّّفَف َ ْ � َ َ ُ ّّل َ َُ ْ ُه َفاْن ََت ََه ََر ََما َأُبُو َبَْك ٍٍر،ٍّش ِبَِث ْْوِبِ ِِه ّ وس م ُمَتَغ َ �ٰ ّ ّ� َ َ َ َ الَّن ِِب �ُّي صلى الّٰلہ عليه وسلم َع ْْن ََو ْْج ِِه ِِه َفَكَشَف َ� َ ّ� َ ْ َ َ َُ ْ ُه َ ََ ّ ُُم يٍد ٍ “َدْع ََما َيا َأَبَا َبَْك ٍٍر َف ِِإَّنَها َأَّيا ِِع: َفَقاَل َّ ّ َ َ ْ ” ََو ِِتْلَك الَأ �َّياُمُ َأ �َّياُمُ ِِم ًًنى.”
Hazrat Aishahra narrated that during the Days of Mina, Hazrat Abu Bakrra came to her while two young girls were singing and beating a duff [frame drum], and the Holy Prophetsa was lying covered with his garment. Hazrat Abu Bakrra rebuked them, whereupon the Holy Prophetsa uncovered his face and said: “Leave them, O Abu Bakr; these are days of Eid.” And those days were the Days of Mina. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Kitab al-‘idayn, Bab idha fatahu l-‘idu yusalli rak‘atayn, Hadith 987)
Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmadas, In His Own Words
to a real cow (Surah Ta Ha, Ch.20: V.88). Whereas it appeared to have life, it was ultimately a soulless creation, a deception of human craftsmanship mistaken for divinity. It’s worth noting that these AI models don’t possess consciousness of their own. They pattern-match words without any real belief or divine understanding. So when users emotionally project real divinity onto them, that is where the deeper issues arise. Technology might be able to simulate speech, but it cannot provide absolute truth or divine revelation.
Claiming the unseen “He is Allah, and there is no God beside Him, the Knower of the unseen and the
seen. He is the Gracious, the Merciful.” (Surah al-Hashr, Ch.59: V.23) In Islamic theology, one of the many divine attributes of Allah the Almighty is that of exclusive divine knowledge. It is beyond human comprehension and, therefore, must be beyond the comprehension of anything man-made. This exclusion even applies to the honoured Prophets of God. Even the greatest of them, the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa, was asked about the soul and responded that it is an affair of God, and humans have been given a limited understanding of the concept of it. (Surah Bani Isra’il, Ch.17: Continued on page 3
A yearning for the manifestation of God’s greatness and glory In the sight of Allah the Exalted, a saint and a man of blessings is one who develops such passion. God desires for His glory to be manifested. � َ َ ْ ُُس In the Prayer, one repeats اَن ََرِّب ِ ََي ْبَح َْ يِم ِظ َع اْل (Holy is my Lord the most ِ َ ِ َ ْ � َ َ ْ ُُس Great) and اَن ََرِّب ِ ََي اْلَأ ْْعَلى ( ْبَحHoly is my Lord the most High). This is also an expression of the desire that God’s glory should shine forth and that His greatness be manifested in a manner that has no parallel. In the Prayer, when a person glorifies Allah and extols His Holiness, the same Continued on page 3