and others like them—over the transformation of accidents into bodies and bodies into accidents. Some, including Hafs al-Fard and others, held that accidents can be transformed into bodies and bodies into accidents, because He created a body as a body and an accident as an accident. An accident is an accident only because Allah created it as an accident, and a body is a body because Allah created it as a body. It is therefore possible for Him to create as a body what He created as an accident, and to create as an accident what He created as a body. He likewise maintained that Allah Most High created colour