89وَقُل إِنّي أَنَا النَّذيرُ المُبينُMuhammad Asadand say: "Behold, I am indeed the plain warner [promised by God]!-1The above interpolated phrase offers, to my mind, the only satisfactory explanation of the definite articles prefixed to the words an-nadhir al-mubin ("the plain warner"). This construction possibly alludes to the Biblical prediction of the advent of the Prophet Muhammad appearing in Deuteronomy xviii, 15 and 18, which has been discussed by me in surah 2, note 33.