The nafs and its schooling

The self, in three named degrees: al-ammāra, the one that commands to evil; al-lawwāma, the one that reproaches itself; and al-muṭmaʾinna, the one at peace. The path is not the destruction of the self but its training, in that order.

Read it beside the Jewish yetzer ha-ra — which is not to be killed either, since without it, the midrash says, no one would build a house or marry or trade. Two traditions refusing the easy answer about the appetite.