The types of insanity and the dispositions of the insane

Question

Question: Can a madman and an insane person (majnun) dispose of his own property or not? (2) Does the same ruling apply to a person of little understanding as to the madman and the insane, or a different one? (3) Kindly write in detail what things, when found in a person, allow him to be judged a madman and insane.

Answer

The insane are of two kinds. The first is the insane person who cannot distinguish at all between what benefits and what harms him, and whose insanity persists at all times; his dispositions are not effective. The second is the insane person who is not wholly overcome (ghayr maghlub), i.e.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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