The hill of Safa

In the third part of the cycle “Towards a sociology of prophecy”, Rudian Zekthi focuses on a decisive turning point in the prophetic history of Muhammad — the going out onto the hill of Safa, and the passage of the Islamic call from the private sphere into the public one. He argues that before that moment the Prophet had an individual duty towards himself and his close circle, while after it a kind of “new prophet” was born: the bearer of a message meant for society, which asks for a wholly different methodology.

Zekthi dwells at length on the “social capital” the Prophet had built up in the forty years before the revelation — the reputation of being the most honest man in Mecca, which gave his public speech a weight of its own. That reputation, he argues, was methodologically unavoidable: the prophetic message could not have been accepted by the Quraysh if the one carrying it had not already held their trust.

At the end, the lecture returns to the central question of the cycle: what does this teach us about dawah today? That the prophetic methodology cannot be neglected, that building personal credibility before going out in public is not an option but a precondition, and that stepping into the public space asks of Muslims the same moral capital Muhammad held before he became a prophet.

Some of the points covered: 📌 The passage from prophethood as an individual duty to a public one 📌 The moment on the hill of Safa as a methodological turning point 📌 The social capital the Prophet held before the revelation 📌 Why the reputation of “the most honest” was unavoidable 📌 Neglecting the prophetic methodology as a problem today 📌 The laws of society as the laws of God 📌 The invitation: build credibility before going out in public

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