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Is it obligatory for someone who caused the breakage of a bus window and the injury of a passenger 10 years ago, an event that occurred when he was fifteen years old, to atone for his sin or surrender himself to the competent authorities?

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To repent from this sin, there are conditions:

1. Between you and Allah: Sincere repentance to Allah and a firm resolve not to return to the sin. 2. Rights of fellow humans (the bus owner): Search for the bus owner and compensate him for the damage. If reaching him is impossible: give charity equivalent to the value of the damage on his behalf. 3. Rights of fellow humans (blood droplets): If you are certain that you afflicted someone with blood droplets: seek their forgiveness. If that is not possible: make sincere repentance and seek forgiveness for yourself and for those you wronged, as Allah Almighty says: "So fear Allah as much as you are able."

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