“The example of a believer is like a fresh tender plant; from whichever direction the wind blows, it bends the plant. But when the wind dies down, (it) straightens up again.”

—  Muhammad

Fiqh-us-Sunnah, Volume 4, Number 1
Sunni Hadith

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Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam 570–632

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