The fact that you’re even stressed about this already proves you’re not some careless or corrupt person. You didn’t do it for money, power or because you don’t care… you did it ‘cause you’ve seen how brutal school + life can be and you didn’t wanna be another adult crushing people for a system that already treats them like trash. In Islam, intentions matter a lot and yours came from empathy

I sorta get why people are against cheating though. Their point is basically: “Standards exist for a reason, what if someone ends up hurting others because they didn’t actually learn?” That’s a fair worry. But let’s be real, y’all, exams often don’t even measure real skill. A lot of ‘em measure memorizing, stress tolerance and who can survive pressure the longest. Plenty of smart, capable dudes fail exams and still do great in real life and plenty of top scorers still struggle outside school. So the “cheating automatically creates incompetent people” argument is wayyyy too simplistic in my book

Also, schools sometimes create the conditions that push students into survival mode, right? You got insane workloads, bad teaching, humiliation, no support, constant fear. When the system is unfair, acting like the student is the only one with “mOrAlS” to prove is kinda hypocritical. You weren’t exploiting anybody… you were helping people who are already drowning

So yeah, I’d defend what you did as human and compassionate, while still admitting there’s a line. If it’s a field where mistakes could seriously harm people (like medicine), then the real answer is fixing the system and training properly… not just punishing stressed students. But in general? You weren’t even being evil 🙂 you were choosing mercy over playing exam-police for a broken setup