Jaun Elia

Jaun Elia

·        INTERODUCTION

Jaun Charles Lamb (Urdu: جون ایلیا‎, fourteen December 1931 – eight November 2002) was a Pakistani progressive Marxist[1] Urdu writer, thinker, biographer, and scholar. He was the brother of Rais Amrohvi and Syed Muhammad Taqi, UN agency were journalists and psychoanalysts. He was fluent in Urdu, Arabic, English, Persian, Sanskritic language and Hebrew. One of the foremost distinguished trendy Pakistani poets, well-liked for his unconventional ways in which, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic history, the Muslim Sufi tradition, Muslim religious sciences, Western literature, and Kabbala."

·        Early life

Jaun Charles Lamb was born on fourteen December 1931 in Amroha, province, India. He was the youngest of his siblings. Rais Amrohvi was his elder brother. His father, Shafiq Hasan Charles Lamb, worked in art and literature. Shafiq was also an astrologer and a poet. Indian director Kamal Amrohi was his cousin-german.

During his youth, Asian country became AN freelance Muslim state. Being a communist, Charles Lamb was antipathetic to the thought, but finally accepted it as a compromise. He migrated to Asian country in 1957, and set to measure in urban center. Poet Pirzada Qasim said:

Jaun was very particular about language. While his diction is frozen within the classical tradition, he touches on new subjects. He remained in quest of a perfect all his life. Unable to search out the perfect eventually, he became angry and pissed off. He felt, maybe justifiably, that he had lost his talent.

·        Religious view

• Jaun Elia was agnostic.
• Works
• Poetry collections
• Ya'ani (2003)
• Gumaan (2004)
• Lekin (2006)
• Goyaa (2008)
• shaa'yad
• Ramooz
• Inshaye aur Mazaameen
• Farnood (published by Khalid Ahmed Ansari)
• Prose work (mainly translations)
• Elia wasn't simply a author however was additionally AN editor and a translator, particularly of previous Sufi, Mutazili and Ismaili treatises.
• Masih-i-Baghdad Hallaj,
• Jometria,
• Tawasin,
• Isaghoji,
• Rahaish-o-Kushaish,
• Hasan bin Sabah
• Farnod, Tajrid,
• Masail-i-Tajrid,
• Rasail Ikhwan al Safa

Above are some of his translations from Arabic and Persian. Not only did he translate these books but also introduced several new words in Urdu language.

·        References

"Jaun Elia: A Communist author UN agency Found faith and communism Compatible". The Wire. Retrieved 2018-07-07.

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