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Peace be upon you,
Setting aside whether the doctrine of the unity of being is sound or not, what connection is there between the Face of God and the unity of being as proposed by the philosophers?
َّهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحيمِ
The Face of God—which refers to religion and God’s proofs—has no connection with the philosophers’ doctrine of the unity of being. The Face of God consists of realities through which God turns His servants toward Himself. God is the Creator of existence and transcends it; His oneness means that He is unique and without equal, not that He is one with His creatures.
There is no conceivable connection!
The wajh Allāh is “the religion of God, the proofs of God, and God’s distinctive signs”—that is, all the realities through which God directs His creatures toward Himself.
God, Blessed and Exalted, is the Creator of existence and transcends existence (the One who brings existence into being). Even describing Him as beyond existence does not befit His station and majesty. The oneness of the Lord is a true, absolute, unique, singular, and peerless oneness.
For anything to share a unity with something else is to deprive it of its oneness!