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anonymous
Say when you were younger about 13 and you weren't practising you stole some money around £5.
Now you feel really guilty about it and have repented but you realise the person has to forgive you for this. But if you cannont tell them, can you give the money back to them without them knowing its from you like leave it in their house. The make dua for them or something that Allah forgives their sins????
I can sort of relate to that. I was on the opposite end. I had a young man steal from me when he was young.
Years later he came to me and told me what he had done. I was overjoyed at his honesty and hugged him and told him how proud I was of him. When he tried to return the cost of what he had stolen I refused to take it and gave him double the value in cash.
When he asked me why, I told him it was his reward for growing up and become honorable. I also told him I knew all the time what he had stolen, but I honestly believed one day the guilt would weigh heavy on him and he would grow up and confess his guilt.