Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

[Jolie]

Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@muqawwee123

**Interesting. This suggests Sufi writers didn’t address complementary problems of their period and hide the facts behind romanticism. **

There is a long debate in literary circles of Sindh about Sufi poetry and Karo-Kari (honor killing). They say its a recent phenomenon and if that was not the case characters like Sohni (who used to meet her lover secretly though she was married), but this didn’t earn her title of bad woman. In Shah Latif’s poetry, a character Moomal was seen by her lover Rano with a guy ( in fact that was Moomal’s sister in disguise), but Rano didn’t kill her and left some of his possession there a left. This again show that Karo-Kari was an alien concept in Sindh just 2 centuries ago.

This is quite an unreasonable interpretation. A very bizarre thing to say.

The thing is poets and creative writers possessed the power and the means to talk about social problems without explicitly commenting on them. This is the beauty of studying literature, before you qualify to read a single word from a literary piece, you ought to do some context analysis of the time the work was created. It is only then you can identify and understand the subliminal protest, the depiction of immorality as the writer sees it in the world he is living and how at the same time he creates an ideal parallel world for his readers see, imagine and long for.