Five Minutes Before Dawn

She met him as a child - a quiet boy who only appeared at dusk.
He protected her. Stayed near her. Loved her in silence.
Years later, when he returned to ask for her hand, her family gave him one impossible condition:
Build a mosque before the call of dawn.
He almost succeeded.
But five minutes changed everything.
This is a story about love that was never meant to exist, faith that was tested, and the kind of loss that doesn't kill you - it leaves you living.