It is very important to remember that jihad has the form of a mission, the so-called peaceful jihad. Muslim missionary work is called jihad. It is true, jihad is a mission, but not only a mission. Jihad can mean a real war, pogroms, poisoning water in the enemy's wells. According to the current interpretation of a number of Muslim authorities from Saudi Arabia, the so-called Wahhabis[11], Jihad is also the distribution of drugs.

In fact, it is understandable why heroin is grown mainly in Afghanistan, because the distribution of heroin is considered a means of undermining the enemy's forces. This is like in any war - the destruction of enemy manpower. This is a purely military tactic.

The land of war is divided, as I have already said, into two parts. There is a land of direct war. The land of jihad is the land that must be exterminated by all means because this state opposes Islam in some way. A war must be waged against these states by all means. The rules of jihad list everything. For example, all men and the elderly should be exterminated, but women and children should not be exterminated.

Women and children must be taken captive: women must become sexual slaves, and children must be forced to convert to Islam. There are specially developed treatises on jihad (also in Russian). These are the rules that have been adopted in Islam since the VII century - from Muhammad.

The land of truce is a land where Islam coexists with a non-Islamic government on the basis of a treaty. That is, Muslims are given the right to live according to Sharia, more or less, but at the same time the society itself is not Islamic. This is called the land of truce. Why? Because these people, or rather, this society, which allows Muslims to live according to Sharia, but in itself is not Islamic, not normal, it must be destroyed, turned into Islamic, but on one condition – on the condition that the Muslim brothers do not suffer.

Therefore, a truce is concluded with him until the moment when society is weak enough to be able to make it Islamic. This is the practice of jihad and the understanding of the world of our planet from the point of view of Islam.

How does a person become a Muslim? What is required for this? Just as an Orthodox person cannot be Orthodox if he does not believe in the Holy Trinity, in the God-Man Christ, if he does not believe in the creation of the world, if he is not baptized, does not take communion, so in Islam there are certain phenomena, rules that make a Muslim a Muslim. What?

These are the famous so-called five pillars of Islam. They are often confused with the six articles of faith, which is actually a mistake.

The five pillars of Islam are as follows: the first is the shahada, which is perhaps more important than anything else. A person who has brought shahadah, that is, a confession of faith, becomes a Muslim if it is done in the presence of two or four Muslims (preferably four, but at least two).

There are entire Internet sites where you can enter your name in a certain ready-made column "religion", click "I accept Islam" and you are automatically considered a Muslim. Because it is believed that you have confessed your faith in front of all Muslims on the Internet. But the essence is that the shahada (shahid is one who confesses the shahada, confessor, or martyr, witness)

is a confession that there is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet. This is a formula that is pronounced in Arabic. In principle, it is now recognized as permissible to pronounce in Russian or any other language. It automatically makes a person a Muslim.

At the same time, it is necessary to confess the other four pillars.

The second pillar is the performance of the rite of worship – namaz[12]. The third is a mandatory tax on the poor – zakat[13]. Usually it is 1/40 of the income, which is paid once a year, during Ramadan. The fourth is the observance of the fast of Ramadan[14] and the fifth is the pilgrimage to Mecca – the Hajj.

Many people believe that the sixth pillar of Islam, obligatory for everyone, is jihad. But, according to the strict Sunni interpretation, jihad is obligatory only for those countries where Islam is oppressed, that is, in the land of jihad, strictly speaking. And elsewhere, jihad is not mandatory.