`Well, there are more than five hundred lines in this link you mentioned, talking about many opinions and you just pick up two lines containing the word ``homoerotic``, that I don't know which idiot has written.  Now let me give you another link  where they precisely talk about ghazal, it's formation and it's particularities. And they mention  ``The idealized ``beloved`` in the ghazal tradition is typically a woman, or God.`` And then why is it believed to be homoerotic????? ``The use of masculine grammatical structures suggests that many poems carry homoerotic undertones.`` As I said it is the structure of the persian language which does not have any distinction between genders, which has made some so-called scholars (probably those with an agenda not related to mystic poetry) to makeing a deliberate mistake of talking about ``masculin grammatical structure`` while it is neutral in persian. Neutral meaning precisely that if a man wrote it ``The idealized ``beloved`` in the ghazal tradition is typically a woman, or God.`` And the paragraph ends by ; ``The ghazal rarely speaks about specific encounters; rather, it conceives of love as a metaphor for interactions among humans, God, and the world.`` How about you, Haiduc,  going a little bit further in your analysis than just fulfilling your agenda (as I know your contribution in wikipedia very well) and looking for the word homoerotic?    `