Hudud With Taubah And Poverty
Taubah is a matter between a person and Allah, it has nothing to do with implementation of Hudood. Once a perpetrator has been nabbed by the state and prosecuted, the circumstances of a criminal and nature of crime will be judged irrespective of a person’s repentance. And while judging those factors, if for example, s state reaches this conclusion that an orphan child only stole something to eat or some other basic necessity and requires leniency, then state can also decide to make good to the owner with regards to monetary value of the stolen food from Bait-ul-maal.
The State is suppose to look after its citizens rich or poor. If a young boy steals food because of hunger and poverty, the State has to answer what they did with their resources, was the Zakat distributed correctly amongst the needy. Allah will judge each person fairly.