During that time Hiqmeti showed a staunch support for the religious policies and nature of the empire, and a disapproval of nationalist ideals that were emerging among Balkan populations.
After failing to find an agreement with leaders of Malësia, Hiqmeti began to visit many Muslim religious buildings and families across area with Albanian populations, spreading pro-Ottoman propaganda.
[2] In 1910 Hiqmeti with some collaborators of him organized at the center of Skopje a meeting where he spoke against the Congress of Manastir and its adoption of a Latin alphabet for writing in Albanian.
[3] After Albania declared independence, in 1914 Hiqmeti was involved in the Peasant Revolt led by Haxhi Qamili and which had as its goal the removal of Prince Wilhelm Wied from power.
[1] The revolt gathered support from some pro-Ottoman peasants who believed that the new regime of the Principality of Albania was a tool of the six Christian Great Powers and the landowners that owned half of the arable land.