{"id":8699,"date":"2014-04-25T23:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=8699"},"modified":"2020-10-26T03:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T03:50:14","slug":"photos-of-muslims-charity-act-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/photos-of-muslims-charity-act-go-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of Muslim\u2019s charity act go viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In what seemed to be a random act of kindness, a Muslim man gave his shoes to a needy man before walking home barefoot. (Photo courtesy: Facebook)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Acts of kindness come in different shapes and sizes and a Muslim man in Canada has had photos of his act go viral after he gave his shoes to a needy man before walking home barefoot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The images were taken by off-duty bus driver Surjit Singh Virk who noticed a passenger wearing plastic hairnets on his feet in lieu of shoes on a rainy day last week.<\/p>\n<p>A man in Muslim dress then took off his shoes and socks, according to Virk, and gave them to the man, saying \u201cyou can take these, don\u2019t worry about me \u2013 I live close by and can walk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The charitable man got off the bus before the recipient could thank him, according to Virk.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Vancouver 24, Virk added: \u201cPeople usually don\u2019t care or even look at other people on the bus, they didn\u2019t even want to sit beside this guy because of how he was dressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s QMI Agency tracked down the 27-year-old Muslim man, but he declined to be identified, saying that according to his Islamic faith, charitable acts should be anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt bad for the guy,\u201d he told QMI Agency, \u201c he was wearing plastic hairnets on his feet. I was only a two minute walk from home so I thought I could give him my shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the donor was returning from the nearby Muslim Association mosque.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Mufti Aasim told the Toronto Sun: \u201cWhenever we do a good deed, even if it\u2019s to help someone out, the Islamic teachings maintain this should remain only for the pleasure of God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what seemed to be a random act of kindness, a Muslim man gave his shoes to a needy man before walking home barefoot. (Photo courtesy: Facebook) Acts of kindness come in different shapes and sizes and a Muslim man in Canada has had photos of his act go viral after he gave his shoes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[359,587,371,588,163],"class_list":["post-8699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sayyed-abdulmalik","tag-canada","tag-charity","tag-muslim","tag-shoes","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8702,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8699\/revisions\/8702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}