Muslims show Americans honesty.

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I recently read an article about a muslim cab driver in new york giving back diamonds he found in his cab. Out of curiosity I did a search of taxi drivers returning valuable items. All 4 instances I found, the taxi driver was Muslim!!

Chicago Muslim cab driver returns fortune worth $320,000
http://mesh.medill.northwestern.edu/mnschicago/archives/2003/10/cab_driver_retu.html

Los Angles Muslim cab driver returns diamonds worth $350,000
http://www.taxiblog.co.uk/1494/cab-driver-returns-diamonds-left-in-taxi/

New York Muslim cab driver returns cash $32,000
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/content/view/371/224/

New York Muslim cab driver returns diamond rings
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/07/america/NA-GEN-US-Honest-Cabbie.php
 
Now if only the world can see that those stories are more in line with what a Muslim is. Insahallah, as more people get to know us they will see what the real truth about us is.
 
The media needs to show this side of Muslims. We are overwhelming very honest, dedicated, disciplined and principled people. Yet we're treated like terrorists. I dropped 300$ cash in the back of a cab 1 day,..some white american guy was the driver I called the company,.....the guy denied it. He said he couldn't find anything. I was fuming but there was nothing i could do.
 
Jibril said:
The media needs to show this side of Muslims. We are overwhelming very honest, dedicated, disciplined and principled people. Yet we're treated like terrorists. I dropped 300$ cash in the back of a cab 1 day,..some white american guy was the driver I called the company,.....the guy denied it. He said he couldn't find anything. I was fuming but there was nothing i could do.
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not all white cabbies are bad.. only handful of them... and unfortunately .. you met one..
 
What will get more attention? "Muslim returns money" or "Muslim suicide bomber kills 60 in Bagdad market"?
 
Keltoi said:
What will get more attention? "Muslim returns money" or "Muslim suicide bomber kills 60 in Bagdad market"?
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I agree,..this is the same reason why the myth that moderate muslms aren't condemning terrorism still exists. Muslims condemn terrorism all the time,..only its not sexy enough for primetime.
 
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Insha'Allaah the muslim did it for the sake of Allaah so his reward is with Him. :)
 
^^Insha'Allah, Ameen.

And thats the point we try to make. If people really had nothing against Islam or Muslims, they would show stuff like this too. I just saw the vid on this on Yahoo.
 
Tayyaba said:
^^Insha'Allah, Ameen.

And thats the point we try to make. If people really had nothing against Islam or Muslims, they would show stuff like this too. I just saw the vid on this on Yahoo.
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Doesn't that seem to suggest they have nothing against Islam, since the story is indeed being covered?
 
I've been asking myself if I would have done the same in this guy's situation. I would like to think that I would.
 
I've found 2 mobile phones. I found one at work but despite a few of my phones being stolen from my bench I handed it in to the reception. I felt proud of myself doing it. I could have pocketed £50-£100.
The 2nd phone I found, well my sister found, was in a nightclub. I convinced her to text the person and arrange myself to hand it back over. I arranged a meeting place and met her personally at Victoria shopping centre and gave it her back. She thanked me and then I went home. I felt good doing it.
 
Yeah, i've noticed that the reason why people keep things which aren't theirs for themselves is to get a sense of happiness that they got something.

But at the same time you get an even stronger feeling of happiness if you give the thing back, or even give something which God has given you to the needy. It makes you feel even more happier when you do that.. praise be to Allaah. :)



Peace.
 
Fi_Sabilillah said:
Yeah, i've noticed that the reason why people keep things which aren't theirs for themselves is to get a sense of happiness that they got something.

But at the same time you get an even stronger feeling of happiness if you give the thing back, or even give something which God has given you to the needy. It makes you feel even more happier when you do that.. praise be to Allaah. :)



Peace.
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It does feel alot better to give back something that isn't yours. The best thing I like to see if possible is the gratitude from the person.
 
England said:
It does feel alot better to give back something that isn't yours. The best thing I like to see if possible is the gratitude from the person.
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Yeah, i understsand. The thing is, people don't always be grateful which might make the person feel sad abit.. but not all of mankind is thankful, so we do things in order to please God instead. If we do it to please God, we want to do good even if the person doesn't thank us because if we doing it to please God, our reward is with Him.



They perform (their) vows, and they fear a Day whose evil flies far and wide. And they feed, for the love of God, the indigent, the orphan, and the captive, (Saying)"We feed you for the sake of God alone: no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks." "We only fear a day of distressful wrath from our Lord."

(Quran Al- Insan 7-10)



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If we do good to please God, we will recieve God's Mercy, and gain the eternal reward of paradise insha'Allaah (God willing.) :)




Peace.
 
It is nice to know that there are still honest people in the world. It helps to restore my faith in humanity. Here in the US we have a day called black friday. It is the day after Thanksgiving and all of the stores have major sales to start the Christmas shopping season. Well this past year I was one of the crazies that got up at 4:30 in the morning to go shopping. So here I am putting around Wal-Mart in the boys department and kick something on the floor. I look down and it is a wallet. I picked it up and went straight to the service desk. There was a woman there in tears telling the lady that worked there that she lost her wallet and it had almost $2000.00 in it that she had been saving all year to buy her kids presents with. So I open up the wallet and sure enough the picture on the drivers license was the same lady that was crying. I walked up to her, hand her the wallet, and told her next time to please don't carry cash!! Then I just walked away. She was so shocked she couldn't even speak.
 
tomtomsmom said:
It is nice to know that there are still honest people in the world. It helps to restore my faith in humanity. Here in the US we have a day called black friday. It is the day after Thanksgiving and all of the stores have major sales to start the Christmas shopping season. Well this past year I was one of the crazies that got up at 4:30 in the morning to go shopping. So here I am putting around Wal-Mart in the boys department and kick something on the floor. I look down and it is a wallet. I picked it up and went straight to the service desk. There was a woman there in tears telling the lady that worked there that she lost her wallet and it had almost $2000.00 in it that she had been saving all year to buy her kids presents with. So I open up the wallet and sure enough the picture on the drivers license was the same lady that was crying. I walked up to her, hand her the wallet, and told her next time to please don't carry cash!! Then I just walked away. She was so shocked she couldn't even speak.
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It's something they will never forget. It's a deed everyone should be proud of doing. I found alot of pride for doing it even if she hadn't said "thank you."
I bet you went home with a smile on your face thinking of what you had done for the woman and how she would have felt about it.
 

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