Several officials of Sultan Mahmud asked Hasan Muimandi one day what the sultan had told him about a certain affair. He replied: `You must yourselves have heard it.? They rejoined: `What he says to thee he does not think proper to communicate to the like of us.? He answered: `Because he trusts that I shall not reveal it. Then why do you ask me to do so??

 A knowing man will not utter every word which occurs to him. 
 It is not proper to endanger one?s head for the king?s secret.