A Muslim man who didn’t want to be named, saying his faith demands that acts of kindness must be anonymous, has made an incredible act of kindness that elicited overwhelmingly positive response online and off. The man gave his shoes to a needy bus driver, deciding to walk barefoot on his way home. “It made my heart melt,” says Surjit Singh Virk who witnessed what happened.

The Toronto Sun reports that a man sat alone on the bus with two plastic hairnets covering his feet instead of his shoes. Another passenger, upon noticing the man’s footwear, took off his shoes and socks and gave them to the stranger, the report says. He then left the bus and walked barefoot.

“He just took his shoes and socks off and said, ‘You can take these, don’t worry about me – I live close by and can walk,” Virk says speaking with the QMI Agency.

According to the Huffington Post, when reached by phone, the kind-hearted man asked QMI Agency not to identify him because his Muslim faith teaches that charitable acts of kindness should be anonymous. The kindhearted man is reported to be a 27-year-old resident of Surrey, British Columbia in Canada and is with the nearby B.C. Muslim Association.

“We are all one family, if anyone in our family was without shoes and we had ample, this is exactly what we would do,” says Facebook user Baljit Sabharwal.

“Once in a while we need this reminder to save our humanity,” he added.

The celebrated act of kindness was not the first time for the web. Earlier this year, an image of Isaac Theil, a Jewish man wearing a yarmulke who let a tired stranger fall asleep on him on the New York City subway was shared by numerous websites and was the subject of what became a famous piece on HuffPost Religion.