The Meccan Revelations: Page 99 from Volume Two

What is the fate of the believers when he says, “Everything is perishing except His Face?”

The answer: The believer is the one we mentioned, the one whose vision has no light except the light of faith. For him, everything is perishing due to his being, the being of his stability and the being of his existence, except his face, the face of the thing. His essence, reality, and face are His appearance, that is, His appearance in objects. As for the objectivity of His essence, it is necessarily the exception. As for His face in appearance, some of our companions include it in everything that is destroyed, and some of our companions do not include it there. As for the one who brings it into destruction, it is considered a special appearance. As for the one who does not include it in destruction. Consider that it is not devoid of some appearance