Statements of this kind abound in his writings and those of others like him, such as Ibn Sab‘īn, who worked out the doctrine of these philosophers with unprecedented thoroughness. He concluded by saying:

“And Allah is fire in fire, water in water, sweet in what is sweet, and bitter in what is bitter; in everything, the form He assumes is that thing.”

This has been discussed at length elsewhere. Likewise, Ibn Hamūya speaks in similar terms in various passages of his writings. So too does Ibn al-Fārid in his famous poem, in which he says:

For her I offer my prayers at the station ... and in them I witness that she has prayed to me.
We two are one worshipper, prostrating to ... his own reality, in union, in every prostration.