However, authority in Islam has historically been resilient. The transition is not necessarily a vanishing of authority, but a relocation and reconfiguration. The future of religious leadership likely lies not in rejecting technology, but in mastering it—imbuing the digital sphere with the rigor, ethics, and spiritual depth that characterize the tradition. The "scholar of the future" will need to be bilingual, fluent in both the classical Arabic of the texts and the digital language of the modern world.
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