Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-Qalam, Ayah 6
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(Which of you is the demented) which of you is mad.
Related Hadiths
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) was asked about a charm for one who is possessed (nashrah). He replied: It pertains to the work of the devil.
When one of you yawns, he should keep his mouth shut with the help of his hand, for it is the devil that enters therein.
When one of you yawns, he should hold his hand over his mouth, for the devil enters.
That is a man in whose ears (or in whose ear) the devil urinated.
When one of you yawns, he should try to restrain it with cue help of his hand since it is the Satan that enters therein.
Is there amongst us one from Qaran? That person came and Umar said: Verily Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) has said: There would come to you a person from Yemen who would be called Uwais and he would leave none...
The yawning as from the devil. So when one of you yawns he should try to restrain it as far as it lies in his power.
Masruq said: I met Umar ibn al-Khattab (Allah be pleased with him) who said: Who are you? I replied: Masruq ibn al-Ajda'. Umar then said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: al-Ajda' (mutilated) ...
Whom do you consider a wrestler among you? The people replied: (the man) whom the men cannot defeat in wrestling. He said: No, it is he who controls himself when he is angry.
"A devil chasing a devil."
Al-Jalalayn Commentary
which of you is demented al-maftūn is a verbal noun similar in expressional form to al-ma‘qūl ‘intelligible’; al-futūn meaning al-junūn ‘insanity’ in other words is it this insanity in you or in them?