On the Life and Death of Jaun Elia -Mufti Abu Layth

hey I'll tell you a bit about him actually just a few words since we've tuned in a bit of history about the the poet he's somebody who is one of my favorites he migrated he was born I think around was it 1931 or something like that in in India and then he migrated probably a decade after the partition in he was from a place called Roja in India a very renowned City stroke town for its either

be kind of contribution for its language for what it's produced and he did then travel to Pakistan ten years after the partition and he lived there too in Karachi and he was incredibly well versed not only in things like Arabic in Farsi in Hebrew apparently in Sanskrit learning Sanskrit learning he'd studied all of these things and and something I didn't know about his name which I upon research came to discover that Elia I thought was a Christian because Elia in

Arabic right right Elia in Arabic refers to Jerusalem so I thought that he was from a Christian background now as it appears he's not Elia I don't know this but apparently the Shia referred to Ali as Elia that they claimed that Ali rhodiola hands claimed that his name in the biblical scriptures was referred to as Elia so the Shia tradition have a

story that when Ali was approached by some of the I think they whether they were Jews or Christians and he said you find my name in your scriptures as Elia so Joni Leah's whole family his dad who was a major poet Shaffir Hassan Elia he had that type that title Elia his other brothers Muhammad Ali is Amrohi all these people Hadi and John which is John I don't know this either until just researching it that is apparently the name of the slave or one of the slaves

of Hussein so Hussein radi allahu on the grandson of the prophet enroute to Karbala one of his slaves I think an African slave his name was John so John Elia so like in that sense like that John the slave of Ali like that and that that was his name anyway Johnny yeah and another intriguing thing I didn't really know that I was quite surprised by is that John Elia studied in do Bund this is what I've read online

no way he's like well he studied in the Abunda parently now in the 50s or prior to the 50s or around that time when the opened perhaps wasn't what it's become today perhaps it was much more open-minded at that point right so he studied in the upland and he then later on obviously traveled to Karachi and but he was very influenced by the thoughts and communism and stuff like this Marxism and and I think we sometimes see

communism as just because of the Western propaganda we just see the the negative side of it but in essence what we we keep forgetting is that Marxism was in essence a cry for equality so a lot of people today when they think call me call me bloody communists they don't understand that this socialism the socialist movements they were in essence a cry for equality and a lot of the civil rights movements sorry not civil rights but like part of civil rights as an employment right and these kind of rights only emerged in

the West as a reaction to communism because otherwise communism would spread because that was what it was stressing and so this poet John Elia was also heavily kind of drawn in by that ideology but I don't think he had much generally believed much he was from a shower background but he seems to he was from the family of the Prophet he claims to be say it but he didn't I don't think he claimed to believe in God so later on he was definitely either agnostic or an atheist so but his poetry is amazing and

and some of the stark realities he touches up on and since it was his death he has a very famous line where he says Johnny garage maribor's City Yanni arcade in murky ottoman that he says that Johnny like deer-like is today my death anniversary does that mean on this date I died and it really is a strange line to read you know later especially I suppose since the person's

dead it is a you know it has wow like striking effect and he was very stock kind of poet if I did have something I wouldn't have minded sharing some things but I don't see no I think I've put him out somewhere else otherwise I thought if I did have his one two things I would have read a muzzle or two of his out but yeah Johnny Leah