Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

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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.

I disagree with the bold part based on my study of Shah Latif. In his poetry male characters get prominence when they acknowledge women equality and in some cases when they get themselves free from worldly status.

Renouncing of throne by King Edward VIII is a latest episode of sacrifice by a man for a lady in continuation of old episodes of Punhoo, Mehwaal and Ranjha renouncing their status depicted in Sufi poetry. The most daring and courageous characters in sufi poetry are females. If sufis had limited them in showing women as inferior, then feminist poets of 20th century like Amarta Pritam had not referred to Waris Shah in ‘aj aakhan waris shah nu’.