Terms of Service
Ask Shamela — askshamela.com · Effective 28 October 2026
By using Ask Shamela, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, please do not use the service.
1. The service
Ask Shamela is a research assistant that draws on a corpus of classical Islamic texts and uses AI to help compose an answer. Answers are generated automatically and may be incomplete or inaccurate. Always verify quotations and citations against the cited source before relying on them.
2. No professional advice
The service is provided for research and educational purposes. It does not provide legal, medical, financial, or religious rulings, and nothing it produces should be treated as a fatwa or other authoritative religious judgment.
3. Acceptable use
- Do not use the service for unlawful, harmful, harassing, or fraudulent purposes.
- Do not attempt to disrupt, overload, probe, or gain unauthorized access to the service.
- Do not submit content you do not have the right to submit, or sensitive personal information you do not wish to share with our AI service provider.
4. Accounts
You are responsible for activity under your account and for keeping your credentials secure. We may suspend or remove accounts that violate these terms or that create a security, legal, or cost risk.
5. Your content
You retain ownership of the questions and content you submit. You grant us permission to store and process that content to operate the service, as described in the Privacy Policy.
6. Availability and changes
The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without warranties of any kind. We may change, suspend, or discontinue the service, in whole or in part, at any time.
7. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Ask Shamela is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss arising from your use of, or reliance on, the service or its output.
8. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised terms; the effective date above will change.