هَٰذَا نَذِيرٌ مِّنَ النُّذُرِ الْأُولَىٰ (56)
(53:56) This is a warning among the warnings of yore. *49
*49) The words in the original are: Hadha nadhir-un-min-an-nudhur-il-ula. The commentators have expressed three points of view in the explanation of this sentence. First, that nadhir here implies the Prophet Muhammad (upon whom be Allah's peace); second, that it implies the Qur'an; third, that it implies the fate of the peoples already destroyed, which has been referred to in the foregoing verses. In view of the context, we arc of the opinion that this last commentary is preferable.