Tazkiyah – Curbing Desires for Food and Sex

  • 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