no superiority for Adam, peace be upon him, over Iblīs in this respect, according to our opponents’ doctrines. For, according to them, Allah bestowed a blessing on Iblīs from the outset, just as He did on Adam. The two blessings must either refer to Adam’s body or be two accidents created in Adam. If He meant Adam’s body, then bodies, according to our opponents among the Muʿtazilah, belong to a single genus. Since bodies belong to a single genus according to them, Iblīs’s body has received the same blessing as Adam’s body, on their own view. Likewise, if He meant two accidents, then there is no accident He produced in Adam’s body—whether color, life, power, or anything else—without having produced something of the same genus in Iblīs’s body, according to them. It therefore follows that