UNITY: praised, desired, but missing [Dr. Shefqet Krasniqi, Husamedin Abazi, Enis Rama]

In this great Prishtina Talks event — the thirtieth in the series — one of the most important subjects for Muslims today is taken up: unity. A panel with three well-known imams, pioneers of Islamic discourse in the Albanian lands — Dr. Shefqet Krasniqi, Husamedin Abazi and Enis Rama — examining why unity, praised and desired as it is, remains missing in practice.

Dr. Shefqet Krasniqi opens the panel by setting the great values of Islam against the reality of Muslims today — a faith that calls to unity, to love and to knowledge, beside a community that often finds itself divided, envious and ignorant — and restores unity as a Qur'anic foundation. Husamedin Abazi divides the question into three levels — human, national and Islamic unity — proposing that the subject be named more precisely “obligatory unity” rather than merely “desired”, and dwelling on the third level, where our condition, “neither as an ummah nor as part of one”, is not to be envied.

Enis Rama closes with an original restructuring of the arguments: unity as identity, as an aim of the sharia, as evidence of the quality of belief, and as a return to the origin. He proposes an essential distinction between “unity in reference” (all of us returning to the Qur'an, the Sunnah and our forebears) and “unity in conclusions”, and ends by saying that unity among us “is not active — it is passive”, and that each of us has to take personal responsibility for making it work.

Some of the points covered: 📌 The contrast between the values of Islam and the reality of Muslims today 📌 The three levels of unity: human, national and Islamic 📌 “Obligatory unity” — not merely praised or desired 📌 Unity as identity, as an aim of the sharia, and as evidence of belief 📌 The difference between “unity in reference” and “unity in conclusions” 📌 Why unity among Albanian Muslims is passive rather than active 📌 Personal responsibility for making unity work 📌 A question and answer session with all three speakers

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