  It might be additionally noted that Maimonides reflects mystical Islamic Sufi language once again when, in his description of the culminating moment of intellectual perfection, he employs the Arabic language of “‘ishq” (passionate love, love, desire).[20] This terminology is also expressly used by Maimonides’ Islamic philosophical predecessor Avicenna in his own “Risālah fī’l-‘ishq” (“Treatise on Love”) where he explores God’s reality as the pure object of love (a point seen already in Aristotle’s idea of God as the final object of all desire), as well as the pure subject of love.[21]  Reflecting on the related Hebrew term ḥōshēq (one who loves passionately) as it relates to his reading of Psalms 91:14, Maimonides explains,