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With respect, during your lecture on 97.7.6, while reciting and translating a hadith concerning the faith of each member and organ of the body, you said: “And the human head, in which God has placed His face.”
With heartfelt thanks and appreciation, from your humble servant of God.
In a hadith about the faith of each member and organ of the body, the pronoun “his” in “his face” refers to the human being: it identifies the head, whose foremost part is the face. Through a particular interpretation, however, the pronoun may be taken to refer to the Creator. On this reading, the human face is a showcase for God’s most beautiful names, and “the Face of God” signifies a particular constellation of those names.
If the pronoun in «وجهه» is referred back to the human being, the passage can be emended to read: “His head, where his face is…”
Of course, we can refer the pronoun back to the Creator only by adopting a particular interpretation: that the human face is a showcase for God’s Most Beautiful Names, and that «وجه الله» means a particular set of these Names, which, through a distinctive arrangement and combination, manifest a particular Greatest Name.