Continuation of the explanation of the hadith: (And if you do a bad deed, do a good deed alongside it, the secret with the secret, and the public with the public).

The Shaykh : .
This hadith is also an explanation of another hadith from Mu'adh, in which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . This details that general statement. It says: If you make a mistake, if you disobey your Lord publicly, you must follow that with repentance and a good deed publicly. But if you are afflicted with doing something in secret, do not expose yourself, and do not announce your sin. Rather, repent to Allah (Mighty and Majestic), which is undoubtedly a good deed, and also do good deeds in secret; that is further from you approaching showing off in performing this deed.
But if you did a bad deed publicly, then announcing repentance from it here is a humiliation of the self, and it is a subjugation and submission of it; and therefore you find that many people, when they make a mistake publicly, a person comes and advises them that they made a mistake and that they should announce their mistake to the people, and few do that.