Do they behave like this because they would rather dream their lives through? Is this behavior really commanded by their intellect? Or is it that they are a people who wish to live without any moral bounds
Are these contradictory accusations [calling Mohammad an intelligent poet and at the same time a mad man, for example] the fruit of their thoughts or the manifestation of their wicked nature
Faridul Haque
Is this what their senses tell them, or are they a rebellious people
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Or, do their intellects order them to do this? Or, are they an insolent people
Do their minds command them this (i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad SAW)) or are they people exceeding the bounds (i.e. from Belief in Allah to disbelief)
Is it their minds that suggest this to them or are they an insolent people?
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
Or is it the hope they found on a basis of a mental concept of what is not true, or on what they see in a dream or a vision steering their feeble minds to an unwarranted course of action, or is it on a basis of obstinacy and transgression