The principle of reality | The six principles of the prophetic call

In this Prishtina Talks presentation, Professor Rudian Zekthi opens a new cycle of six lectures on the prophetic methodology of the call, presenting the first of the six principles — the principle of reality. The full cycle will also take in the principles of improvisation, autochthony, intensity, fragility and finality, and it sets out to identify both the weak points of the call in the Albanian lands over recent decades and the basic methodological concepts that need building.

Zekthi argues that from the moment the Prophet Muhammad went out publicly on the hill of Safa and through to the end of the Medinan period, there is a single principle that determines whether an engagement with the call is adequate: the principle of reality — the obligation to give religious meaning to every real situation, every event and every question in which the caller's society finds itself. That principle, he says, has been systematically neglected, because the “principle of priorities” has been applied in its place — the idea that there exists a special science determining what matters most and how we should act according to that order.

In the polemical part of the presentation, Zekthi argues that this “principle of priorities” is an illusion, one that lets callers justify neglecting real reality and building a parallel, utopian one. The truth, he says, is that there is only one priority — that truth should prevail over falsehood — and it calls for no special science, only a sharpness that catches the rhythm of a real confrontation with society. This opening lecture is at once an invitation to self-criticism and a methodological proposal for the rest of the cycle.

Some of the points covered: 📌 The new cycle: six principles of the prophetic methodology of the call 📌 From the cave of Hira to the hill of Safa and to Medina: the three periods of the revelation 📌 Why the moment on the hill of Safa is the real turning point 📌 The principle of reality: the obligation to give religious meaning to every situation 📌 A criticism of the “principle of priorities” as a methodological illusion 📌 “Truth has come and falsehood has vanished” (al-Isra, 81) 📌 Is there a science of priorities, or a sharpness that catches the rhythm?

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