Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

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Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@the_kaur

I think the reason of using women was to use as symbolism of oppressed of male-dominated society. poetry of any kind always has multiple interpretation anyway, that is why I always like well written prose to poetry

but even scriptures were written in poetry style. So poetry got more acceptability than prose. Sufi poetry was / is more popular in those areas which are otherwise labelled as ‘illiterate’. It is an achievement for Sufis to convey their message and make it part of fabric of such society through poetry.