Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

[Jolie]

Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@ajazali

disagree with bolded part as that is not the case with sufism in subcontinent.
Sufis believe in women’s inferiority, physically and spiritually. Metaphor of weak character in their poetry is woman, in front of a man. Similarly they refer to themselves as women and their murshid as a man. Also they do not relegate the desi culture of oppressing women.

What you may call inferiority could also mean limitations of being a woman in those times. The fact that Sufis wrote as referred to themselves as woman and gave her the characteristics of a mureed is a perfect example to highlight how they went against the desi culture of keeping the woman mute and anonymous by giving her a voice in their writing. They explored the depth of women’s emotions, desires, dilemma, and adventures and personified female strength and rebellion. Women were assigned the mureed status to epitomise the generous nature female loyalty, their capacity to hold platonic love for eternity, their longing to have a virtuous male character into their lives.

The classic male *murshid *and female mureed analogy can perhaps be taken as a metaphorical device to convey the untold truth about female restlessness, their desire for gentle guidance, acceptance, purpose and identity in male dominated society where women were habitually oppressed.