He is above it...

It is better to pay than receive from the vain, for such favors demand ten times
their cost.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

When a person says, 'I will not allow you to take the best of me, if you are
crooked I will show you ten times more crookedness,' then he is clever. But when
a person says, 'Yes, I understand you, you need not play that game with me, let
me alone,' he is wise. When a person does not know the crookedness of the other
person and so allows him to take the best of him, he is a fool. But when one
sees clearly the roguery and crookedness of another person and yet allows him to
take the best, he is the holy man, he is beyond the regions of humanity, he is
beginning to climb the angelic planes, he sees all things, understands all
things and tolerates all things. The mystics talk about the innocence of Jesus,
and Sufis try to follow it as an example. This innocence is the same, and
revelation comes to that person who sees all the falsehood and treachery of
human nature and pities instead of accusing, and forgives because he has reached
to that height that no falsehood, roguery, deceit or treachery of an ordinary
human being can touch him -- he is above it.