Is a person who commits sins and conceals them from people out of shame or fear of becoming a bad example considered among those referred to by the verse: "And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did and make them as scattered dust," and the Hadith: "When they are alone with God's prohibitions, they transgress them"? And if he is not the one intended, then who are those intended by them?

There is a significant difference between one who feigns righteousness but violates prohibitions when alone, showing no regard for his Lord and no remorse for his actions—his state being like that of the hypocrites and dissemblers—and the Muslim who is overcome by his desires and falls into what Allah has forbidden, yet his heart is troubled and his soul disturbed, fearing the grave consequences of sin and the wrath of the Lord, so he regrets his actions and tries to desist from them. The first state is what Thawban’s hadith addresses concerning the violation of Allah’s prohibitions, unlike the second state. For the believer sees his sins as a mountain he fears will fall upon him, while the wicked person sees his sins as a fly that passed over his nose.