As for avoiding doubts, then doubts are those that have both a direction towards what is forbidden and a direction towards what is permissible alike, without prevailing, so avoiding it is not better than consuming it, nor is consuming it more preferable than avoiding it. Piety avoids consuming it out of preference for the aspect of prohibition in that, and other than piety does not abandon that, so between them is this degree. As for abandoning what There is no doubt about it, then it is purely permissible. If abandoning it, I mean abandoning the virtue of it, because it is only valid to abandon the virtue of it, then that omission is asceticism, not piety, for asceticism in the forbidden and the doubtful is piety, and abandoning what is permissible and virtuous is asceticism, but as for what is not virtuous, which is what the need calls for, then asceticism involves sin, and all that remains is timing. The need for that and what is the limit of what is virtuous of it in which asc