Muslim Man Walks Home Barefoot in The Rain after giving Needy Bus Passenger His Shoes and Socks

For a few minutes on a cold and rainy Saturday, two humans found each other.

A Muslim man gave his shoes and socks to a fellow bus passenger who was wearing plastic bags on his feet. The generous man then walked home barefoot.

It was simple. One needed. One gave. And together, the two formed a picture that Surjit Singh Virk will never forget.

“It was a very emotional thing for me to see,” Virk told The News.

The off-duty bus driver was heading home from a religious parade in his hometown of Surrey, in Canada. He took a city transit bus, route No. 341. It was a busy day, but for some reason everyone on the bus had crowded into the back.

There was just one person sitting in the front, a man in a black t-shirt who didn’t have a jacket to ward off the cold. Instead of shoes, he wore flimsy bags.

Virk saw the Muslim man climb on board and sit next to the lonely stranger. The man took off his socks and shoes and slid them quietly on the floor, as if he didn’t want anyone to see.

“At first, I was like, why is he taking his shoes off, is he going to pray?” Virk recalls thinking. “And then he said ‘Just take it, don’t worry about me, I live close by.’”

The recipient was shocked by the unexpected gift.

“Did that really happen?” Virk remembers him asking after watching the Muslim man get off the bus.

The 27-year-old was coming home from a British Columbia mosque, the Toronto Sun reports. He refused be identified because according to Islamic teachings, it is better to do a good deed in secret.

Virk was surprised by how natural giving seemed to the man. He’s used to the idea of people giving money as charity, but those acts are usually planned out.

“This wasn’t charity, this was just between two human beings,” Virk said. “No race, no religion. That was the beauty of it.”