Basatin al-uns 71.42
English (machine translation) 71.42
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71.42
It is not fitting to make anyone a confidant of secrets, / lest suddenly an enemy lie in ambush.
If you need a companion to speak of it, / consider none more intimate than your own heart.'
For it is written in the books of the ancient sages: 'Whatever task confronts an intelligent, prudent, and
far-sighted man of clear intellect, and his resolution is restricted to completing it and his mind is occupied with attending to it,
must, to the extent of human capability and the limit of human endurance, bring to manifestation the signs of beautiful patience in concealing it,
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- Basātīn al-uns — Ṣadr al-Dīn Akhtasān Dihlavī, Persian