to what results from a deed, this would be acceptable. Yet this does not prevent that from being the apparent meaning, as in the parallel case discussed above.

Moreover, people have disputed whether accidents themselves—whether deeds or otherwise—can be transformed into bodies existing in their own right. Abū al-Hasan al-Ashʿarī mentioned this dispute in his Book of Doctrines, saying: “They differed—meaning the speculative theologians