إِن يَسْأَلْكُمُوهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا وَيُخْرِجْ أَضْغَانَكُمْ

37. If He should ask it of you and press you (to give it), you would covet and withhold, and He would bring out your (suppressed) resentments.¹³

13. God has implanted in humankind numerous urges, some of which are apparently evil. However, a proper education causes these to be channeled into virtues. For example, enmity is channeled into enmity towards one's own carnal soul in order to train it, and jealousy into emulating others in their virtues. In fact, these urges have been given to humankind for this end— that is, to channel them into virtues that will cause one to grow spiritually and morally.