And the commentators of the Quran have interpreted the Face of Allah as His essence. It came in the book Majma' al-Bayan by al-Tabarsi concerning the explanation of the verse:

("(And it is said that its meaning is: there Allah knows and sees. So wherever you turn, there is the Face of the Almighty, meaning He desires the pleasure of His Face, i.e., they desire Him through supplication. And His saying: 'Everything will be destroyed except His Face,' meaning except Him. And 'There remains the Face of your Lord,' meaning your Lord remains.")

And it came in the Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim by Sheikh Muhyiddin al-'Arabi: "So wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah," meaning in whatever direction you turn, exoterically or esoterically, there is the Face of Allah, i.e., the Essence of Allah, which is manifest in all His attributes... etc.

[207] And from the saying of our Master in this sermon: "I am the one informed of the news of the first ones, and the informant of the events of the last ones," we understand that he is Allah, by the evidence of the Almighty's saying: