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•  Controlling one's desires for food, drink and sex
•  Evidence of the need for moderation in eating in the Sunnah
•  The two tests: Abstaining and abstaining from want of praise/ostentation
•  The purpose of sex in Islam
•  Controlling excessiveness in sexual desire.

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin by ibn Qudamah

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Can a Muslim be depressed?
Types of depression that are forbidden.
Remedies for crippling sadness

 - The importance of tawheed (worshipping Allah alone)
 - Understanding the role of qadr (divine decree) and accepting what Allah had decreed
 - Patience is rewarded, rejection is punished
 - Knowing that affliction is not just for evildoers and can sometimes be a blessing
 - The rewards of affliction
 - Duaa for depression
 - The importance of the supplication "ina lillahi wa ina ilayhi rajiun"
 - Keeping the life of this world in perspective

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•  Good Morals as a reflection of an inner state of being
•  Hypocrisy as a sign of inconsistency between the interior and exterior
•  The importance of the soul in Islam
•  Finding a balance between excessiveness and abandonment
•  Difference between hypocrisy and practicing what you are not (good character) for the sake of improvement

Reference: Mukhtasar Minhaj Al-Qasidin by ibn Qudamah

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