– What is the significance of the text to its audience?
To the audience, the text could be an elegy with which they can connect to on a personal level, or it can be an insight into the beliefs and ideologies of Sufism from a first-person perspective.
The audience can connect to the sorrow and lament shown by the narrator due to their own, and by forming a personal connection with the text, they can have their feelings expressed through the poem, and resonate with the message of the poem.
The audience can also look into the poem to understand the feelings of a devout Sufi, and they can experience both the poison and the sugar coming from the song of the reed by reading the poem, which can further make them understand the concept of Sufism.