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.
Zameen
Poems with the Same Metre and Rhyme
دریغ صحبت دیرین و حق دید و شناخت
که سنگ تفرقه ایام در میان انداخت
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از صحبتِ یارانِ دِمَشْقم مَلالتی پدید آمده بود؛ سر در بیابانِ قُدس نهادم و با حیوانات اُنس گرفتم.
تا وقتی که اسیرِ فرنگ شدم، در خَنْدَقِ طَرابُلُس با جُهودانم به کارِ گِل بداشتند.
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