 what confirms this meaning of the distress of concealment and its difficulty for the wise let alone others is what they narrated from some of their jurists that he used to carry concealed news that the common people could not bear and his chest became tight with it so he would go out into the open and dig a hole and put it in a jug then he would lean over that jug and tell it what he heard so his heart would relax and he would see that he had transferred his secret from one container to another.
ومما يؤكد هذا المعنى في كرب الكتمان وصعوبته على العقلاء فضلا عن غيرهم، ما رووه عن بعض فقهائهم أنه كان يحمل أخبارا مستورة لا يحتملها العوام، فضاق صدره بها، فكان يبرز إلى العراء فيحتفر بها حفيرة يودعها دنا، ثم ينكب على ذلك الدن فيحدثه بما سمع، فيروح عن قلبه، ويرى أن قد نقل سره من وعاء إلى وعاء.