The dawah of Musa

In the seventh and closing part of the cycle “Towards a sociology of prophecy”, Rudian Zekthi works out in detail the paradigmatic example of “vertical dawah” — the prophetic call addressed directly to the system of power — through a reading of the Qur'anic account of Musa before Pharaoh. If the previous lecture set the conceptual frame of vertical dawah, this one illustrates it in full from the Qur'anic text.

Zekthi reads a great many verses from the surahs Ta-Ha, al-A'raf, an-Nazi'at, ash-Shu'ara and al-Qasas, and identifies three dimensions of the call of Musa: the proclamation of monotheism to a Pharaoh who had raised his head, the liberation of the Children of Israel from Pharaonic rule, and the final witness borne before the power of the age. He dwells in particular on the divine command to speak “gently” — which is not weakness, but the necessary method even when the confrontation is at its sharpest.

In the second half, Zekthi finds those same three dimensions in the prophetic method of Muhammad — from the hidden period in the house of al-Arqam to the public appearance with Abu Bakr — and closes the cycle by turning the whole conceptual structure (the groups, the generations, the categories, the call before the system, the dawah of Musa) back to the practical question that underlay all of it: how Albanian Muslims are to become “the first group” in their own society, carrying the method of the prophets from one generation to the next with integrity.

Some of the points covered: 📌 Vertical dawah as the call addressed to the system 📌 The account of Musa before Pharaoh as the paradigmatic model 📌 The three dimensions of the mission of Musa: proclamation, liberation, witness 📌 The divine command to speak “gently” in the sharpest confrontation 📌 The result is decreed by God; the process is our responsibility 📌 The prophetic method of Muhammad, from the house of al-Arqam to the public call 📌 Closing the cycle: the groups, the generations, the categories and the dawah

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