All My Rage

by Sabaa Tahir

“If we are lost, God is like water, finding the unknowable path when we cannot.”

Noor said Salahudin was coming. My son. I wished I could tell her how he looked at me when he was born. I had never been closer to heaven than I was then, when the fabric between this world and the next was breached for one ineffable moment as I gazed into my child’s eyes for the first time.