Ahmad Abdillah

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Ahmad Abdillah

Essays on deen, craft, and the machine. Written from Singapore, where the security work and the spiritual work keep turning out to be the same work.

Reading by interest

If work feels unseen

No One Was Watching

Ihsan, and why excellence does not need an audience.

If AI makes you uneasy

Eloquence Is Not Knowledge

Al-Ghazali's clever debater, reborn as a language model.

If you build for a living

Coming soon

Craft as worship, and shipping as character.

Topics I keep returning to

  1. 01 Ihsan at work
  2. 02 Sincerity against performance
  3. 03 Al-Ghazali and knowledge
  4. 04 AI and discernment
  5. 05 Craft: security, engineering, building

Short notes

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Where this comes from

I work in security incident response by day: reading systems under stress, tracing how things break. The essays here come out of the same habit turned inward, on work, sincerity, and what the tradition has to say about both.

More about me

May it be of benefit.