Here you will find the Poem Ch 04 On The Advantages Of Silence Story 08 of poet Sa di
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.