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By InFocus News Staff
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CHICAGO-- A couple was shocked when a cab driver returned a wallet with more than $200 in cash that he had forgotten in his cab, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Dave and Marge, who asked that their last names not be used, took a cab driven by Ziarat Khan to the train station. At the train station Marge realized her wallet was missing. The couple thought that they would never see it again.
But just then, Dave got a call from the credit card company saying that a taxi driver had called to say he had found their wallet and gave them Khan’s number.
They arranged a meeting at the station. Khan said that a passenger had found the wallet in the back seat and given it to Khan, untouched.
When Dave tried to give him a $100 reward, Khan refused.
"He just wouldn’t take anything," Dave told the Chicago paper. "And the last thing he said before he left is, `Allah be praised.’"
"If you help somebody, if you do good things, on the day of judgment you will get rewarded," Khan said. "We don’t take anything that doesn’t belong to us. Because we are Muslims and we are honest people, and we believe you cannot do anything wrong while following your religion."
Dave told the Tribune that he was shocked "three times," – at Khan’s honesty, his passenger’s honesty, and because "he absolutely refused to take a reward."
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