When you delegate a task to an AI agent, you're not just offloading work — you're making a quiet decision about what deserves your attention. The medieval Islamic philosopher Al-Ghazali wrote about a concept he called *tawakkul* — not passive resignation, but the disciplined act of deciding what you can genuinely entrust to another so your own capacities can go somewhere more important. He was talking about trust in providence, but the architecture of the idea maps cleanly onto how we use copilot agents today. The risk isn't that the agent does the task badly; it's that we delegate without deciding — handing things off reflexively, and slowly losing track of which problems still need a human mind fully present. Before you route the next task to an agent today, spend five seconds asking: am I freeing up attention for something harder, or just avoiding it?

What is the last thing you delegated — to a tool, an agent, or a person — that you actually should have sat with yourself?

Drawing from Sufi / Islamic Philosophy — Al-Ghazali