It's not a new bit of news but I wanted to discuss what is Islamic and what is not about this act.
giving your shoes to a homeless man is great feeling warmhearted behavior that any one could feel the will to do it.
but what is the difference here that distinguishes it as an Islamic behavior?
It is the part that we -Muslims- don't share with the world or other people
which is not love to be known for doing good things.
doing it just for the sake of god.
don't want people to know what good you did or to be thanked over it.
Quran (Surah Al-Insan 8-9)
(And they feed, for the love of Allah, the indigent, the orphan, and the captive, (Saying),"We feed you for the sake of Allah alone: no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks.)
He gave this man the shoes and walked away without been known.
That's the Islamic part of his action that not any body in other religion or an atheist would do.
every body would do good for reason that may be feeling good or compassion but non of them but a Muslim wouldn't like to be known.
I imagine if he was an ordinary man he was to be interviewed in TV programs or some but he preferred to keep his work for Allah and only for Allah so that he is the one who reward him.
May Allah accept his good and forgives his bad and make us a better people.