So from this perspective, the term "Thing" was applied to him; and the "Thing" is that upon which accidents (a'rad) enter, and this is very clear.
And his saying: "It does not subsist by itself" refers to the accident, and there is no disagreement in that, that accidents do not subsist by themselves. Do you not see that the yellowness of dread and the redness of shame must have a body in which they appear? And likewise whiteness, blackness, motion, and stillness.
And his intent by that is that death does not occur except to an Example (Mithal) in the eyes of the Mixed Ones.
And his saying: "Indeed, the Body is independent of Things" means that the Form (Surah) is independent of accidents, manifesting them.
And his saying after a long speech: "He is not outside the limit of bodies, yet He is outside the limit of accidents1."
And that is because the Creator is neither taste, nor color, nor smell, nor sound, but He is another Body2, special, unique in the Eternal, Pre-eternal Oneness, perceived by ocular vision (al-'iyan).