1/ In the influx of responses to my recent tweets, some were keen to know what this ‘middle ground’ is that I was referring to. I believe it's a place where judgements are replaced with reasoning. As long as you hold judgements over reasoning, you have an inner bias/tilt
2/ you need to address. There's no set middle ground - because it’s circumstantial but to get to it, one has to self correct their actions. As an example, say one person prays, and another doesn’t. If you like the one who doesn’t, it’s probably because you’re tilting
3/ to that way of life yourself. If you like the one who does, you’re probably tilting towards that way of life. In the centre, neither matter. One realises through reasoning that both persons play a very important part in creation and complete the picture by being
4/ opposites. Judging either one of them is not our business. Understanding the reasons why they are a certain way helps one understand the Laws of Creation. Judgement without knowledge is blinding and usually a reflection of our own inner biases. So to answer your
5/ question, the centre is a place where one is truly free. That part of the wheel that remains at rest even when the ‘extreme’ edges spin. Can one stay here? Briefly I believe but our biases keep springing up and to stay centred, one has to keep catching them and
6/ correcting them.

As for Judgements, the Holy Quran says “O you who have believed, let not a people ridicule [another] people; perhaps they may be better than them; nor let women ridicule [other] women; perhaps they may be better than them.” (Qur’an 49:11)

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