Intake approval
The resource has been reviewed, its rights are documented, its integrity is verified, and a named reviewer has approved it for storage. It is not yet available for answers or public use.
Source Governance
How QuranTEL governs its sources.
Every source inside QuranTEL passes through intake controls, rights review, integrity verification, layer separation, independent review, and release gating before any public use. Traceability is built into the architecture from the first intake step.
Governance principles
Source authority, traceability, and integrity — by design.
QuranTEL does not use uncontrolled external content. Every resource that enters the platform is registered, reviewed, and approved under explicit governance controls. The result is a knowledge base where every answer can be traced back to its source — and where the authority level of every source is always visible.
Source governance is not a filter applied after content enters. It is a precondition for content entering at all.
Canonical Qur'an textHighest authority — fail-closed gate
Authorised translationTranslation layer — labelled explicitly
Tafsir / commentaryInterpretation layer — separated from text
Scholarly opinionScholarship layer — authority-ranked
Supporting evidenceContext layer — origin-verified
Source intake controls
Every resource begins in a secure review queue.
No resource enters public use directly. Every source submitted to QuranTEL is held in a secure review queue on intake, awaiting explicit approval steps before any answering or display is permitted.
Intake and secure review
Every resource is submitted and immediately placed in a secure review queue. No public use, no answering, no AI processing is permitted until explicit approval steps are completed.
Rights and licensing review
Copyright status, licensing terms, and usage rights are reviewed and documented for every resource before any further processing is allowed.
Integrity verification
A tamper-evident integrity check is recorded for every resource at intake. If the file changes after intake, the integrity check fails and the resource is blocked.
Independent review
A named reviewer must explicitly approve each resource. Approval records include the reviewer's identity, timestamp, and notes. No anonymous approvals.
Separate gates
Answer eligibility and public visibility are separately gated.
Being approved for intake does not automatically make a resource available for answers or publicly visible. QuranTEL uses three separate gates:
Answer eligibility
An approved resource becomes eligible for answers after an explicit second gate. Only answer-eligible resources can appear in search results or evidence packages.
Public visibility
A separately approved resource becomes publicly visible after a third, explicit gate. Retrieval-eligible resources are not automatically public — they require their own release approval.
Controlled AI
AI is controlled and evidence-bound — not autonomous.
QuranTEL uses controlled AI to help organise approved resources, classify topics, support answering, and prepare citation-backed answer drafts. AI does not act as the authority. Every AI output is labelled non-authoritative, requires human review, and cannot use unapproved material or material still in the review queue.
No uncontrolled internet learning
AI in QuranTEL does not learn from uncontrolled internet sources. It operates only on approved, reviewed material inside the governed resource base.
No unapproved source usage
AI cannot answer using material that is still in review, unapproved, or not yet cleared for answers. The gate is enforced in the architecture, not just policy.
No fabricated citations
AI output must cite approved sources. It cannot invent Qur'anic references, hadith, or scholarly claims. Every citation must trace to a real, approved source record.
Non-authoritative labels
All AI output is explicitly labelled as AI-generated and non-authoritative. These labels are enforced at the architecture level — not optional display choices.
Human review required
AI drafts do not become public answers automatically. A human review gate exists between every AI output and any public display.
No religious rulings
AI cannot issue fatwas, religious rulings, or authoritative religious verdicts. This is a hard architectural constraint, not a preference setting.
Layer separation
What QuranTEL never merges silently.
Arabic text and translation
The original Arabic Qur'anic text is never silently presented alongside a translation as if they are the same thing. Translation is always labelled as translation.
Translation and tafsir
Tafsir and commentary are interpretive scholarship. They are never merged with translation or presented as authorised Qur'anic readings.
Commentary and the text
Commentary is never elevated to the level of the Qur'anic text itself. The distinction between the revealed text and human interpretation is always visible.
Scholarly opinion and established positions
Scholarly opinion is labelled as such. It is never presented as unanimous Islamic consensus unless that consensus is itself documented and traceable.
QuranTEL is not a religious authority.
QuranTEL is an evidence resource — not a fatwa service, not a religious authority, and not a substitute for qualified Islamic scholarship. It does not issue religious rulings. Every response is evidence-labelled, source-traceable, and explicitly non-authoritative.
For religious guidance, consult a qualified scholar within your tradition.