User talk:Michaeldonaldalker73

While reading an article entitled "Futuwwa" I felt that the article was lacking in many details of the word's definition and I felt it necessary to make a few suggesting comments. First, the article failed to give the correct etymology of the word, which comes down to us through a tradition narrated from the Prophet Muhammad, who while speaking about the qualities of 'Ali Ibn Abi Talib said, " There is no Fata ( eternal youth ) if 'Ali is not Fata." Futuwwa is tied to 'Ali because of this statement of Muhammad and because it best describes the noble character of 'Ali as chivalrous. It has been narrated in a tradition concerning 'Ali that once while at battle he had occasioned to overcome his enemy and just before delivering the final blow with his sword to his enemy, his enemy spat upon 'Ali at that very moment. This infuriated 'Ali and he began to walk away from his enemy who taunted 'Ali and question him why he did not finish him upon which 'Ali answered say, "At first I encountered you and fought you for the sake of Allah, but when you spat on me I became angry and had I killed you then I realized that I would have been doing so out of my anger and not for the cause of Allah. " This is more proof of 'Ali's chivalry. Second, the article failed at mentioning the connection between Futuwwa and Rabita which is an 'Arabic word for 'Fort' derived from 'Rabit' which means to stand ready. At every Islamic center of learning ,in the early days of Islam, there stood a Rabita and there in the Rabita Muslim guardsmen where taught the principles of Futuwwa. I found that the article lacked these fundamental explanations of the word Futuwwa that would give a reader better understanding of the word. Instead the writer of the article came strictly from a modern perspective and understanding of the word and thought it better to associate this wonderful word instead with Hitler and the Hitler Youth. This decision of the writer to associated such a sublime ideology with one of the world's worst ideologies leaves me to beg what were his or her intentions.