If it be said: They maintain that those states do indeed have a First Mover—on this point they are all agreed, as Aristotle and his followers have stated. Ibn Sīnā likewise records this, saying:

“Section on how the Prime Mover moves, and that He moves by way of yearning.”

He says: “That which moves the mover without itself undergoing change, through intent and longing, is the end and aim toward which the moved thing inclines; it is the beloved, and the beloved, insofar as it is beloved, is the good in the eyes of the lover.”

He further says: “The good sought through motion must necessarily be a self-subsistent good whose very nature precludes its being possessed; and every good of this sort the intellect seeks only to resemble to the extent possible.”

And he says: “Resemblance to the supreme Good entails remaining perpetually in the most perfect state a thing can attain—something that was not possible for the celestial body.”