How does the bot answer?
Fidelity before technology: every answer passes through five stations designed for a single purpose — that nothing reaches you except what His Eminence (RA) said, or what is accurately attributed to its source.
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Station 1 — Understanding and classifying the question
Your question is first classified: a practical jurisprudential one, an intellectual–epistemic one, or a time-bound contemporary one — and each class has an independent processing path with its own rules.
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Station 2 — Dual retrieval
Two engines work together: a semantic one that grasps meaning even when wording differs, and a lexical one that captures the precise jurisprudential term. So the answer is lost neither to a colloquial question nor to an unfamiliar term.
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Station 3 — The two-layer rule
The normative-text layer: the approved answer text reaches you verbatim as printed, with its source title and page number — no summarizing, no merging, no alteration. And the discourse layer: an introduction that understands your question, an application of the answer to the situation you described, and a conclusion — all of it around the text, not within it.
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Station 4 — Contemporary matters with triple attribution
What changes with time — such as moon-sightings and statements — is fetched from specific verified channels, and each item is attributed to its channel with a link to its post and its date. No fixed ruling is taken from a news item, and no news item from a book.
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Station 5 — And when the text is absent
No automated ijtihad and no guessing: an apology in a fixed approved text, and a referral to the Sharia Inquiry Office via the /private command.
“I do not currently have the text of the opinion of His Eminence the Leader (RA) on this matter in the archive provided to me. To obtain a precise and conscience-clearing answer, please use the /private command to forward your question directly to the Sharia Inquiry Office.”
These limits are not a technical shortcoming; they are a deliberate design: a bot that knows its limits is more trustworthy than one that answers everything.
Answers are indicative and do not replace the Sharia Inquiry Office.