Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

[muqawwee123]

Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@the_kaur

But I don’t think poetry simplified it. Mahabharat has 1,00,000 shlokas, Ramayan has 24000. But the most I understood it, when I read it in prose. I believe prose it much better way of teaching and learning, how about parents teaching their children in poetry rather than prose?

But I think concern of this thread is different though.

I think there is reason for teaching children nursery rhymes. melody can easily be picked.

But as you say, the thread is about different issue.

How do you see depiction of females in Ramayan and MahaBharata? Is that a typical abla-nari (innocent and victimized woman) or something different? Did Bhakti movement (paraleel to sufi movement) brought some changes in that portrayal?