Original sentence: The medieval scholastics made a distinction between conscience and a closely related concept called synderesis, though the two terms may have originally meant the same thing
Edited sentence: Some medieval Christian scholastics made a distinction between conscience and a closely related concept called synderesis, though the two terms may have originally meant the same thing.The medieval Islamic scholar and mystic Al-Ghazali divided the concept of Nafs (soul or self) into three categories based on the Qur’an: Nafs Ammarah (12:53) which "exhorts one to freely indulge in gratifying passions and instigates to do evil", Nafs Lawammah (75:2) which is "the conscience that directs man towards right or wrong", and Nafs Mutmainnah (89:27) which is "a self that reaches the ultimate peace