Fate did not grant him the chance to see the day he had long waited for… Neither his dream nor the years of hard work were enough to let him wear the graduation gown that remained hanging, waiting for its moment of joy. Yahya Othman Hamdan, just twenty-three years old and a student in the Faculty of Engineering at Tafila Technical University, passed away after contracting non-epidemic bacterial meningitis. A young life whose flame had not yet fully burned was suddenly extinguished, and a chapter of his story was folded before it reached its natural end.

In a matter of hours, everything changed… A young man in the spring of his life became a painful memory, and his name now passes through hearts like an arrow, striking only emotion. His family—who had been waiting proudly for his success—woke up to an unbearable shock. They bid him farewell in disbelief, with tears unable to grasp how death could take him with such cruelty, and how the home once filled with his laughter turned into a suffocating silence.

His photo sitting in a classroom, dreaming of a brighter tomorrow, ignited social media… His friends and loved ones wrote about him with heavy hearts, recalling his humility, noble manners, and the smile that brought comfort to those around him. They said Yahya was not just an engineering student… he was a young man carrying a dream, a brother carrying love, and a friend who knew how to leave a gentle mark wherever he went.

His dreams stopped at the very first line… and he disappeared like light fading suddenly, without warning. His smile will not pass by unnoticed; it will remain engraved in the memory of everyone who knew him. His room—witness to long nights of studying—now asks for him, his books left open on pages waiting for his return, and his clothes still hanging, longing for the scent he once carried, as if refusing to believe he is gone.

Yahya departed… leaving behind a wound that cannot heal, and a life story short in years but deep in impact—a story of a young man taken by illness before he lived his dreams, and before his family celebrated the joy they had awaited for so long.

For its part, Tafila Technical University mourned this heartbreaking loss, writing on its official Facebook page:

Student Obituary | Professor Dr. Hasan Muhammad Al-Shalabi, President of Tafila Technical University, together with the university community, mourn with great sorrow and grief the passing of the student (Yahya Othman Hamdan Abu Yahya) from the Faculty of Engineering. They extend their deepest condolences to the family of the deceased, asking the Almighty to envelop him in His vast mercy and grant him a place in His eternal gardens, and to bestow patience and solace upon his loved ones. “Indeed, to God we belong, and to Him we shall return.”