The Sikh man who took off his turban to cradle the bleeding head of a five-year-old after he was hit by a car has been reunited with the child he saved.
Heartwarming pictures show a smiling Harman Singh, 22, at the bedside of Daejon Pahia who was struck by a car while he was walking to school on Friday in New Zealand.
The boy's family gifted Daejon's saviour a bunch of flowers with a thank you balloon and card when he came to visit the youngster at Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland on Tuesday.
Mr Singh, who broke strict religious protocol by removing his turban, expressed joy at seeing the boy, who still carries scratches and bruises from the incident, doing well.
'I am just so happy to see him - he is such a very brave guy,' Mr Singh told Daily Mail Australia.
'He is doing well and is stable, but he was so shy when I would enter the room.
'He has lots of toys there with him.
'His mum and dad were so happy to see me and told me lots of times "thank you".'
Inside the card, the Pahias wrote: 'Daejon and his family would just like to say thank you for helping and saving Daejon we're very grateful.'
Mr Singh was heralded a hero across the world when photographs emerged of him without his turban and it tucked under the bleeding boy's head in South Auckland.
He received thousands of messages and comments on his Facebook page.
Mr Singh, from India, is in Auckland studying a business course. He said he was overwhelmed with all the praise.
'Thousands of people have said 'well done'. I was only doing what I had to and trying to be a decent member of the community,' he said.
'Thanks to all who messages, calls... thanks all the worldwide Facebook members who messaged me. I think i just did my job nothing else.'
Earlier this week, Daejon's mother, Shiralee Pahia, thanked Mr Singh for saving her son's life.
'I just really want to thank him because I know it's against his religion to take that kind of stuff off so I just really want to thank him because if it wasn't for him my son wouldn't be here,' she told The New Zealand Herald.
Mrs Pahia described the moment as a nightmare when she arrived at the scene to see her boy lying on the road.
'I was just shocked, I just went into my own little world, I didn't say anything to anybody, I was just pulling my head together,' she said.
Sikhism is the only religion in the world which requires its followers to tie a turban.
Turbans become a part of a Sikh's body and are usually removed only in the privacy of their own house. Normally it is only in the most intimate of circumstances, when bathing the head, or washing the hair.
