Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

[Jolie]

Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@muqawwee123

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.

I am struggling to understand what you mean by facts? Poets don’t write history. Their peotry is not supposed be a journalistic inquiry and or a newsfeed. You must not read creative literature if you are intersted to read some historically correct factual information of the era you are interested to know more about. It seems you are under an impression that somehow romanticism means a total departure from commenting on the time you are living in. Lord Byron’s Don Juan is a major literary piece from the Romantic era defining all the characteristics of romanticism. In his poetry he describes Turko-Greek war, takes sides. However, you must not read Don Juan if you are looking to read about ‘facts’ on Turko - Greek war yet you must know about the war before you read Don Juan because it makes up for the context of the later part of his book.