The Face (Al-Wajh) is a guide to the Veil (Al-Hijab). And the Veil is the mask of the Lord

I say, and with Allah is success: The Face is a proof of the Veil (Al-Hijab), which is the Face of Pre-eternity. The indication of the face toward it is by way of the Niqab of the Lord and His Gate in which the meanings appear and from which their perfection becomes manifest. The Veil is the Niqab of the Lord and His Gate through which the Powers appeared and from which their crafts emerged. The five orifices of the face are indicative of the manifestation of the Veil through five persons, without separation in reality, though they appear so to the observer. He is the One who does not accept division.

The head as a whole indicates it, except for the earlobes, for they indicate the two noble stations of its world; they are the two that are manifest from it outwardly in the feminine attribute, named Zaynab and Ruqayya.

The five external senses of the head—Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste, and Touch—just as they provide the souls with knowledge of perceptibles, they also provided the Persons of the Intellect in its manifestation with the world of intelligibles. They supported them with the inward senses through which the unseen is witnessed and the possibilities and impossibilities are conceptualized;