Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged...

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful...the Best Knower.

Something I was pondering this morning:

We must be slow to judge, and be careful HOW we judge, for all of us are part of an ever-changing, ever-evolving reality; and none of us are exactly the same, today, as we were yesterday.

If I "label" someone based upon my own limited experience and insight, then, in my mind, I am not allowing him or her the freedom to grow into that which Allah Created him or her to be.

In reality, if we, in our minds, hold someone to a particular moment in time; it is not they who are held captive in that moment, but it is we who are held in that moment in the past, and so become disconnected (to some degree) from the present.

In other words, we cannot hold someone captive in a certain moment in the past without holding ourselves captive in that same moment.

"Judge not, lest ye be judged..."

RM