he preached that jihad would not occur until the caucasians followed sharia completely rather than following a mixture of islamic laws and "adat" (customary traditions). by 1828, mullah began proselytizing and claiming that obeying sharia, giving zakat, prayer, and hajj would not be accepted by allah if the russians were still present in the area. he even went on to claim that marriages would become void and children bastards if any russians were still in the caucasus.