Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Israa, Ayah 47
نَّحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَسْتَمِعُونَ بِهِۦٓ إِذْ يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِذْ هُمْ نَجْوَىٰٓ إِذْ يَقُولُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًۭا مَّسْحُورًا
We are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by magic."
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(We are best aware of what they wish to hear) the recitation of the Qur'an (when they give ear to you) when they listen to your recitation, i.e. Abu Jahl and his host (and when they take secret counsel) about your matter; some of them say you are a sorcerer, some a soothsayer, some a madman and others say you are a poet, (when the evil-doers say) when the idolaters say to one another: (Ye follow but a man bewitched) you follow Muhammad and he is bewitched.
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
We know best what they listen to the reason for which they listen to it in order to mock it when they listen to you to your recital and when they are in secret counsel holding secret talks among themselves in other words when they talk when idh substitutes for the preceding idh ‘when’ the evildoers say in their secret conversation ‘You are only following a man bewitched one duped his mind overcome’.