Jon Elia, Pakistani poet, philosopher, and scholar (born 1931)

Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known by his pen name Jaun Elia,, was a Pakistani poet. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets of ghazals (odes), popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic history, the Muslim Sufi tradition, Muslim religious sciences, Western literature, and Karbala". He was fluent in Urdu, Arabic, Sindhi, English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew.