The generations

In the fourth part of the cycle “Towards a sociology of prophecy”, Rudian Zekthi deepens the thesis of the cycle by bringing in the real intermediary of social change — the generations. If in the earlier parts he argued that societies are changed through the groups that carry prophetic premises, he now puts the practical question: how is that change actually passed on between generations, and why is the task so hard?

Zekthi develops a sociological frame of three generations living side by side in every society — the preceding generation, the present one and the one that is coming — and argues that the world of one cannot be handed automatically to another. He reads closely the case of the Children of Israel in Sinai, the generation that came out of Egypt set against the generation born in the desert, and then turns to surah al-Hadid, above all verse 16, which warns against becoming “like those who were given the Book before them, and a long time passed over them and their hearts hardened”.

In the last part, Zekthi applies the frame to the context of Albanian Muslims: the present generation carries the chief responsibility for not repeating that hardening towards the divine call, and for passing the coming generation a living relationship with the faith — not as an automatic inheritance, but as an effort each generation has to renew for itself.

Some of the points covered: 📌 From the groups to the generations: the concrete intermediary of change 📌 The three generations that live side by side in every society 📌 The Children of Israel: the generation that left Egypt against the one born free 📌 Surah al-Hadid, verse 16: the warning against the hardening of hearts 📌 The world of one generation is not handed automatically to the next 📌 Every generation has to win its relationship with the faith for itself 📌 Applying it to the present generation of Albanian Muslims

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