# Iqra Times & Falah Research Institute ## Fact-Checking & Empirical Verification Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) *Document Reference: FRI-SOP-2026-TAHQIQ-01* *Classification: Mandatory Institutional Standard for All Newsroom Desks, Fellows, and AI Personas* *Effective Date: October 2026* *Companion Standards: FRI-SOP-2026-AUTHOR-01 (Author Style Guide) & FRI-SOP-2026-VISUAL-01 (Visual Standards)* --- ## 1. Executive Mandate: The Tahqiq Protocol *Iqra Times* publishes deep-horizon intelligence across five high-consequence intellectual desks: **Sovereign FinTech & Rails, The Shifa Desk (Integrative Somatics & Neurobiology), Wealth & Succession, The Classical Polymath, and The Jauhari Column**. To safeguard institutional trust, eliminate algorithmic hallucinations, and establish peerless credibility, **no article, dispatch, or serialized fiction installment may transition to `status: "published"` without passing the Tahqiq Verification Protocol.** > [!IMPORTANT] > **The Golden Law of Tahqiq:** > A claim stated without primary provenance is a liability. Every statistical data point, theological attribution, clinical biological assertion, and historical quote must be verifiable against authoritative primary source documents. --- ## 2. The Four Verification Firewalls Every dispatch is subjected to four mandatory domain-specific firewalls: ``` +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE 4 TAHQIQ VERIFICATION FIREWALLS | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 1. SCRIPTURAL & HADITH FIREWALL | Must verify against primary Hadith corpus | | | (Bukhari, Muslim, Sunan). Zero fabricated | | | or unverified Da'if traditions allowed. | +-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | 2. MACROECONOMIC & DATA FIREWALL | Statistical telemetry must trace to raw | | | regulatory filings, central banks, or DOSM. | +-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | 3. BIOMEDICAL & SHIFA FIREWALL | Clinical & somatic claims must index to | | | peer-reviewed PubMed (PMID) or DOI studies. | +-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | 4. HISTORICAL TEXT ATTRIBUTION | Classical citations (Ghazali, Ibn Sina, | | | Ibn Khaldun) must name the specific treatise| +-----------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ ``` ### 2.1 Firewall 1: Scriptural & Hadith Integrity 1. **Quranic Citations:** Must state the Surah name and exact verse numbering `[Surah:Ayah]` (e.g., *Surah Ali 'Imran [3:97]*). 2. **Hadith Grading & Provenance:** * Primary references must come from the six canonical books (*Kutub al-Sittah*) or the *Muwatta*. * Prioritize *Sahih al-Bukhari* and *Sahih Muslim*. * Traditions with weak (*Da'if*) grading must never be used to establish doctrinal, ethical, or juridical claims. * Apocryphal sayings circulating on social media (e.g., "Seek knowledge even in China" or fabricated dietary sayings) are strictly prohibited. ### 2.2 Firewall 2: Macroeconomic & Financial Telemetry 1. **Monetary Figures & Currency Values:** Must reflect contemporary verified market exchange rates or official gazettes (e.g., Tabung Haji official rates, Bank Negara Malaysia statistics, BIS triennial data). 2. **Economic Comparisons:** When contrasting median household incomes with service costs (e.g., median wages of RM 3,500 vs RM 40,000 Hajj packages), the originating statistical agency (e.g., Department of Statistics Malaysia - DOSM) must be cited. ### 2.3 Firewall 3: Biomedical & Somatic Integrity (The Shifa Desk) 1. **Clinical Rigor:** Dr. Hakim Zainur Rahman's desk must distinguish between *speculative wellness theories* and *empirically demonstrated human physiology*. 2. **PubMed / DOI Grounding:** Any discussion of vagal nerve stimulation, heart-rate variability (HRV), gut microbiome metabolomics, or chronobiology must be rooted in peer-reviewed journals (e.g., *Nature*, *Frontiers in Neuroscience*, *The Lancet*). 3. **Non-Medical Caveat:** Every Shifa dispatch must carry the standard non-clinical disclosure directing acute health concerns to licensed physicians. ### 2.4 Firewall 4: Classical Manuscript & Polymath Provenance 1. **Direct Work Citation:** When citing classical scholars, authors must cite the specific historical treatise: * *Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali:* Specify *Tahafut al-Falasifa*, *Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din*, *Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal*, or *Al-Mustasfa*. * *Ibn Sina (Avicenna):* Specify *Kitab al-Shifa* or *Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb*. * *Ibn Khaldun:* Specify the *Muqaddimah*. 2. **Zero Second-Hand Misattribution:** Quotes commonly misattributed to Muslim polymaths on popular blogs must be traced back to the primary Arabic/Persian edition before inclusion. --- ## 3. The Tahqiq Pre-Flight Audit Process Prior to publication, every draft must run through the automated verification auditor (`tahqiq_audit.py`): 1. **Claim Deconstruction:** The text is parsed to extract all numbers, currency units, percentages, named scholars, Hadith narrations, and medical claims. 2. **Cross-Referencing:** Numerical and scriptural entities are cross-checked against authoritative repositories. 3. **Adversarial Scoring:** The article receives a **Truth Confidence Score (0–100%)**: * **Score ≥ 90%:** Approved for broadsheet publication. * **Score < 90%:** Publishing is hard-blocked; an editorial Red-Pencil audit log is generated detailing the dubious or unverified assertions. --- ## 4. The Public Tahqiq Integrity Seal Every verified article published on *Iqra Times* incorporates the broadsheet **Tahqiq Transparency Card** at the bottom of the article prose: ```html
🛡️ Falah Research Tahqiq Verification Protocol • Certified
This dispatch has undergone forensic fact-checking under institutional standard FRI-SOP-2026-TAHQIQ-01. Scriptural references cross-checked against primary Hadith archives; macroeconomic metrics verified against official gazettes; clinical claims reviewed for peer-reviewed literature alignment.
``` --- ## 5. Pre-Publication Verification Checklist Before toggling any Ghost post status to `published`: - [ ] **1. Scripture / Ayah Check:** Are all Quranic verses cited with exact Surah and Ayah numbers? - [ ] **2. Hadith Grading Check:** Are all Hadith sourced from recognized collections with authentic grading? Zero unverified social-media Hadith? - [ ] **3. Statistical Traceability:** Do all numerical percentages and monetary figures cite a recognizable institutional entity (e.g., DOSM, Tabung Haji, central bank)? - [ ] **4. Biomedical Grounding:** Does any somatic or health advice cite verified physiology and carry the non-medical disclaimer? - [ ] **5. Classical Attribution:** Are polymath quotes tied to an authentic named treatise? - [ ] **6. Tahqiq Audit Score:** Did the automated audit tool return a passing score (≥90%)? - [ ] **7. Seal Injected:** Is the Tahqiq Transparency Card embedded before publication? --- *Maintained by the Research Directorate & Academic Council, Falah Research Institute.* *Distributed across the agent network via `agent-playbooks`.*