On alms

Mirza Abdur Rahim Khan-e-Khanan, Minister & Governor at Mughal King Akbar's Darbar.

Rahim when giving alms to the poor never looked at his beneficiary but averted his gaze downwards. Goswami Tulsidas, a sanskrit scholar and poet sent Rahim a couplet:

"Sir, why do you bestow gifts like this, where have you learned such ways?
Your hands are raised as high as your eyes drop low"

Rahim understood that Tulsidas was inviting him to say a few words:

"The Giver is someone else, bestowing day and night.
The world gives me credit: so my eyes are cast down"

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Later in life Mirza Rahim relinquished his position in the Mughal Durbar, renounced his worldly goods and set off as a mendicant.