 In order to favourably influence the part of the Sunni community that based its view towards the declaration of independence of Albania on the clergy, he presented a fatwā and saluted the declaration as "God's gift".A member of the reformist faction of the Sunni community of Albania, in 1920 he was elected to head it as Grand Mufti.During his tenure which lasted until 1929, the waqf properties were documented and registered, the administration was centralized and the religious services reached normalization.