Abstinence In Islam - Imam Ghazali Rehmatullah Aleh

Know ye that the greatest pain afflicting man is the lust of the stomach. It is on account of it that Adam (pbuh) and Eve were ejected from the abode of tranquility (the garden of Eden) to the abode of humiliation and impoverishment (this world). The fruit of the tree (apple) had been proscribed to them but they allowed their covetousness to overwhelm them, so they ate of it and the evil thereof became clear to them. In truth, ...