Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

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Re: Why Sufis conveyed their message through female characters?

@Jolie

…Sufis weren’t your average ‘desi’ men, that’s why.

You always get heightened form of romanticism in literary. One of the purposes of creative literature is to create an idealised world, characters and situations you don’t see in your normal surrounding. If you read Shakespeare, you’d would think perhaps people in Elizabethan era worshipped women.

The creative writers are not supposed to think like everyday people and follow the cultural norms, they convey their own desired form of perfection through words. The beauty they see is a product of their imagination?

Interesting. This suggests Sufi writers didn’t address complementary problems of their period and hide the facts behind romanticism.

There is a long debate in literary circles of Sindh about Sufi poetry and Karo-Kari (honor killing). They say its a recent phenomenon and if that was not the case characters like Sohni (who used to meet her lover secretly though she was married), but this didn’t earn her title of bad woman. In Shah Latif’s poetry, a character Moomal was seen by her lover Rano with a guy ( in fact that was Moomal’s sister in disguise), but Rano didn’t kill her and left some of his possession there a left. This again show that Karo-Kari was an alien concept in Sindh just 2 centuries ago.