I dream of heaven

Author's name: Rana Yahya Adham

The Old Man of the Forest's prophecy forms the focal point that attracts events and the nucleus in which the central themes of the text are bred in the novel "I Dream of Paradise" by the novelist Rana Yahya Adham, who takes the "Kingdom of Aslan" with its symbolism and its kings and princes as a field for the struggle for power between brothers and friends. To achieve this goal, all means become legitimate, including murder.
"I Dream of Paradise" is a futuristic novel that begins in 1984 and ends in 2020, when the old man of the forest fulfills his prophecy for the four young men when he meets them one day when they camp in the forest on a pleasant hunting trip that they usually go on every year.
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There were four of them: Yamen Gadic, the youngest son of King Ahmed Gadic, King of the Kingdom of Aslania; Yaser Gadic, an officer in the Royal Aslani Air Force and the eldest son of the king, three years older than his brother; Jihad Antalic, the third of the group and a close friend of the brothers, who studied law with passion; and Faki Ardić, the fourth of the young men, who was forced to study medicine, to continue in the footsteps of his fathers and grandfathers.
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The old man studied their faces, telling himself that the friendship between these young men, which had lasted throughout their years of innocence, would not take long to disappear and fade away, but would turn into enmity...
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He said to them, "One of you... will talk a lot and everything he says will be a lie..." "The other, will be trusted and betrayed." "The third, will make a promise and break it." When they asked him about the fourth, the old man sighed deeply and said, "The fourth will be the victim

Is there any truth behind what the old man claimed?
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From the atmosphere of the novel we read:
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“A lot has happened since you were last here, Dad. I am now a journalist, a photographer, a writer, and a reporter. I am all of these things, but I feel like I don’t know who I am, or what I should do with my life.”
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"I miss you so much, Dad. I need your presence, your advice, and your wisdom that you always gave me. But I know that you are with God now, and that you are in a much better place than this world. All I want is to be with you and Mom wherever you are. Don't get me wrong. I don't wish for death, but if God is pleased with me at this moment, I would be ungrateful if I didn't wish for a good ending for myself. I feel like a burden on the world. And now, with what's happening to me, all I wish for is escape. I dream of heaven, Dad. I dream of heaven."