Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

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Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@Jolie

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.

I do understand this point that poetry is subject to interpretations and thats why interpretations have kept this poetry alive after centuries. Sufis wrote on subjects which people can relate todate.

Some people may argue that sufi poetry became outdated as they emphasized on matters which were even not required to be highlighted in the era they lived. This argument is based on perception that sufi poetry follows escapism on relevant issue. I personally don’t agree to this perception myself, but again there are people who think so.