Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

[muqawwee123]

Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@Jolie

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.

My point is when someone is perceived as promoting idealism coupled with romanticism, how could that writer be able to convey facts of his/her era.

I don’t say Sufis didn’t talk about problems of their era. What I believe is their poetry is an alternate source to history of that era. To achieve this, Sufis definitely exercised a balanced approach between romanticism and facts. Their writing might be full of metaphors, but this is acceptable norm in literature in turmoil times and one can not blame writers from such eras (like Zia era) to write abstract things.