Setting a role model for followers of Islam, a British Muslim has been praised for his honesty after returning a forgotten bag containing £10,000 cash.
"He nearly had a heart attack, he was really worried," Cabbie Mohammed Nisar told Express and Star.
"He came up to me and said 'do you realize what is in that bag?
"He was very, very thankful. He had just bought a car but forgot the money."
The 55-year-old Nisar picked a customer from Hereford at Walsall train station and drove him to his normal destination of British Car Auctions in Green Lane without noticing that he left his bag.
After finding the bag in his cab, the father of three placed it on the front seat and started looking for the man who left it behind.
The owner realized his forgotten bag almost half an hour after leaving Nisar's cab.
When he restored his bag the thankful man praised the Muslim drivers' honesty.
For Nisar, who has been a cabbie for 15 years, the incident was not surprising. It was not the first time to find something forgotten in his car.
Mobile phone and purses are among things that he frequently finds left in his car.
Nisar recalled an incident when he handed a wallet containing £150 to a customer's home in Darlaston, two years ago.
Britain is home to a sizable Muslim minority of nearly 2.7 million.
In 2011, think tank Demo found that Muslims in the United Kingdom are more patriotic than the rest of population.
Responding to the statement “I am proud to be a British citizen”, 83% of Muslims said they are proud of being British.
Reflecting a deep-rooted relationship, a synagogue in the northern British city of Bradford has appointed, this month, its first Muslim member, in a decision passed unanimously by its ruling body.
"Give It Back"
The Muslim driver urged his fellow cabbies to be honest and give back any stuff they find in their cars.
"At the end of the day honesty is the best policy. There are some drivers who don't return things but what is the point," Nisar said.
"If the council had not have called me and no-one had have claimed it after 12 or 24 hours I would have taken that bag straight to the police station. It is better me going to them rather than them coming to visit you.
"Mobile phones are the most common thing left behind but most of them now can be traced anyway.
"My message is to encourage all my taxi driving brothers that if they find something valuable just give it back."
Nasir is not the first Muslims to make news headlines for his honesty.
In 2008, a world-class violinist gave a free concert at a New York airport taxi stand to show his gratitude to an honest Muslim cab driver who reunited him with his lost 4-million-dollar violin.
Last November, a Muslim owner of a Burger King branch in San Jose returned to police a backpack which contained US$100,000 after finding it abandoned at one of the restaurant’s tables.
More recently, A Pakistani Muslim has been praised for his honesty after returning Dh50, 000 he found on an ATM machine in Dubai.
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