By Muhammadrasul Saaduev, Imam of Central Jum`ah Mosque | Makhachkala | 09 Sept 2011

We can compare Islam, with which Allah lifted us, with a very strong tree with deep roots, strong trunk, branches and fruit. The root of this tree is “Al-'Ubudiyyah”, being a true slave of Allah, a feeling that overwhelms the heart of a Mu’min (a true believer).

Polosin Ali Vyacheslav is an eminent representative of the Muslim community in Russia.
He was born in Moscow in 1956. In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, in 1984 from Moscow Ecclesiastical Seminary, and in 1993 from the MFA Diplomatic academy of the Russian Federation. He was a Russian Orthodox priest after1983 (after 1991 he was out of staff). He is a Candidate of Political Sciences. Ali Vyacheslav Polosin defended his PhD dissertation topic ‘The Russian Orthodox Church and the State in the USSR, 1971-1991. International Legal and Political Aspects.’ in 1993 in the MFA Diplomatic academy of the Russian Federation.

Sects in Islam.

Sects propagation has caused lots of problems within the society. All the latest terror attacks are more or less connected with the representatives of different sects, usually using Islam as a cover. Ali Vyacheslav Polosin, Doctor of Philosophy and a prominent representative of Muslim community in Russia, is talking about present-day sects and their nature.

– What’s a sect and what’s sectarianism like nowadays?