What is meant by moderation?

Question:
This questioner asks: What is meant by moderation? Is moderation, as described by the people of misguidance and those like them, that when a forbidden thing and a permissible thing conflict, there is no objection to taking a middle path in that? What is your guidance?

Answer:
How can one be moderate in this? If a permissible thing and a forbidden thing conflict, one takes the permissible and leaves the forbidden; one does not take the forbidden. This is if there is confusion, if one does not know whether it is from the permissible or the forbidden? That is what one waits in, until it becomes clear. One should avoid doubtful matters, for whoever avoids them has purified his religion and his honor. Leave what makes you doubt for what does not make you doubt. This is regarding the doubtful. As for the clear forbidden, this is not a place of confusion. It must be left. It must be left and one must stay away from it. Yes.