When a wise person wants to give the answer to a question...

When a wise person wants to give the answer to a question, he will do this in a thought-provoking way, technically and with good intentions because the unexamined speech can mislead instead of increasing knowledge (Beheshti, Faqihi & Abuja’fari, 2001). When speaking and questioning or answering, Sa’di emphasizes not interrupting the others.

“No one confesses his own ignorance, excepting he who begins speaking whilst another is talking; and before the discourse is ended” (Gulistan, chapter IV, tale VII). The reason Sa’di says this is that “a discourse hath a commencement and a conclusion” (ibid).In another instance, he says, “Whosoever interrupts the conversation of others, to make a display of his own wisdom, certainly betrays his ignorance” (Gulistan, chapter VIII, tale LXXXII).

And he adds, “A wise man speaketh not until they ask him a question” (ibid). Sa’di orders all people, “Till you perceive a convenient time for conversing, lose not your own consequence by talking…