The Meccan Revelations: Page 358 from Volume One

As for considering this purity as a generalization of the purity of the soul from all the deeds it has been commanded to be purified from, both apparently from what relates to the organs and internally from what relates to the soul in terms of the sources of its attributes, not from its attributes. Rather, we said of the sources of its attributes, for its attributes are necessary for it in the origin of its creation and cannot be separated from it, to the point that some of our companions have said He made it the essence of itself and that it is its psychological characteristics such as greed, miserliness, gossip, and every reprehensible description .