Basatin al-uns 71.47

71.47

"When you resolve upon a momentous matter, conceal it that you may succeed;
For the benefit of the tyrannical enemy lies in your matter becoming known."
and must not disclose it except to someone who is worthy of intimacy and fit for consultation, and concerning whom it has been established and verified by rational proofs and arguments
that disclosing that secret to him will bring about the opening of the door to the objective and necessitate blocking the path of distraction for
the mind and the heart's contemplation; because this kind of situation can under no circumstance be free of two states:
this important affair that has arisen, and that need which has presented itself—is its final outcome destined to be completed
or not? If the pen of destiny on the tablets of pre-eternity, according to the decree "The pen has dried regarding what is to be,"
has so proceeded that the reins of that pen's design cannot be attained, and its tight knot cannot be undone by the subtle ruses of problem-solving intellect,
at least one remains safe from the taunt and malicious joy of enemies, and from the sorrow of heart that brings tidings to the ear of the soul of the heat of the fire of Hell and
the severity of painful torment, and the brand of shame and humiliation will not settle upon the forehead of
one's existence. And if, through the assistance of the auspicious conjunctions of the azure sphere and the support of heavenly fortune and ever-increasing luck,
its attainment might be facilitated, [it may happen] that when the ill-wishing enemy and the idle envier obtain awareness and knowledge of that