In this article, we look at the 9 common arguments that Muslims make when they are told to follow the Qur’an alone \u2014 since it is clear, complete and detailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muslims are quick to point to Qur\u2019anic verses that command the believers to obey God and the messenger. Let us consider how we can apply this command today. Muhammad is not among us anymore; he is dead. How exactly can we obey a dead person? We cannot. The command to \u201cobey God and the messenger\u201d was only applicable to the believers during Muhammad\u2019s\u2019 time, just as the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O you who heed warning: enter not the houses of the Prophet, save that leave be given to you for a meal, without watching for its hour. But when you are called, then enter; and when you have eaten, then disperse. And seek not to remain for conversation; that hinders the Prophet, and he is shy of you; but God is not shy of the truth. And when you ask of his wives an item: ask it of them from behind a partition; that is purer for your hearts and their hearts. And it is not for you to hinder the messenger of God, or to marry his wives after him ever; that were, in the sight of God, monstrous.
(33:53)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd this one:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The believers are but those who believe in God and His messenger, and when they are with him on a common matter, go not away until they ask leave of him. They who ask leave of thee: those are they who believe in God and His messenger. So when they ask leave of thee for some matter of theirs, give thou leave to whom thou wilt among them, and ask thou forgiveness of God for them; God is forgiving and merciful.
Make not the calling of the Messenger among yourselves as your call one of another. God knows those who slip away surreptitiously among you. And let those who oppose His command beware lest a means of denial befall them, or there befall them a painful punishment.
(24:62-63)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIf Muslims argue that by obeying the hadith and sunnah they are obeying the messenger, then my response is as follows: Do you consider following secondary suspect sources written centuries after Muhammad\u2019s death \u2014 which he never saw or approved of \u2014 to be the same as following a living, breathing person? This is a nonsensical proposition.
Muhammad, himself, was following the Qur\u2019an i.e. he was obeying God. To obey the messenger, after his death, is to follow the one thing that was revealed to him by God. It is to continue calling men towards God and warning them of the Hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd strive for God with the striving due Him. He has chosen you, and has not placed upon you in doctrine any distress \u2014 the creed of your father Abraham. He named you those submitting before, and in this, that the Messenger might be a witness to you, and that you might be witnesses to men. So uphold the duty, and render the purity, and hold fast to God; He is your protector. Then excellent is the Protector! And excellent is the Helper!
(22:78)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nTake what the Messenger gives you<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Muslims claim that Muhammad was a law-giver \u2014 he allowed and forbade things \u2014 but the fact of the matter is that God alone is the law-giver. Muhammad was simply following the ordinances of God. Muslims start out with the false claim that Muhammad was a law-giver and then proceed to make the argument that they have been commanded by God to take what the messenger gives and to leave what he forbids i.e. they need the hadith because it contains details on what Muhammad allowed and forbade. However, the verse in question has nothing to do with legislation; it has to do with the spoils of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What God gave in spoil to His messenger from the people of the cities belongs to God and His messenger, and to relatives, and the fatherless, and the needy, and the wayfarer[\u2026] that it be not a distribution by turns between the rich among you. And what the Messenger gives you: take it, and from what he forbids you: refrain \u2014 and be in prudent fear of God; God is severe in retribution \u2014
(59:7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMuhammad Explained the Qur\u2019an<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Muslims claim that Muhammad\u2019s mission was to explain the Qur\u2019an; how then can we understand it if we abandon the hadith? This argument assumes that the Qur\u2019an is difficult to understand, which is simply not true. Muslims usually cite the following verses to support their argument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And We sent a messenger only in the tongue of his people, that he might make plain to them; and God sends astray whom He wills, and guides whom He wills; and He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.
(14:4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd We sent before thee only men to whom We revealed \u2014 so ask the people of the remembrance, if you know not \u2014
With the clear signs and the writings. And We sent down to thee the remembrance, that thou make plain to mankind what has been sent down to them, and that they might reflect.
(16:43-44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nA cursory review of these verses does suggest that Muhammad was to \u201cmake plain\u201d the Qur\u2019an to mankind, but let us look at how the Qur\u2019an uses the Arabic word bayyana \u2014 which Brother Gerrans translates as make plain or make clear\u201d \u2014 in other places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They said: \u201cCall thou to thy Lord for us, that He make plain to us what she is.\u201d He said: \u201cHe says: \u2018She is a heifer neither old nor young, middling between that,\u2019 so do what you are commanded.\u201d
(2:68)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThose who conceal what We sent down of clear signs and guidance after We made it plain to men in the Writ: those are cursed by God, and cursed by those who curse,
Save those who repent and make right and make plain: those are they towards whom I turn; and I am the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful.
(2:159-160)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThey ask thee about wine and games of chance. Say thou: \u201cIn both is great sin, and benefits for men; but their sin is greater than their benefit.\u201d And they ask thee what they should spend. Say thou: \u201cThe surplus.\u201d Thus does God make plain to you the proofs, that you might reflect
(2:219)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWould one of you wish to have a garden of date-palms and grapevines, beneath which rivers flow, he having every fruit therein?[\u2026]. And old age befell him, and he had weak progeny, and a cyclone wherein was fire befell it, and it was burned up. Thus does God make plain to you the proofs, that you might give thought.
(2:266)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nGod desires to make plain to you, and to guide you to the established ways of those who were before you, and to turn towards you; and God is knowing and wise.
(4:26)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nO doctors of the Law: Our messenger has come to you, making clear to you much of what you hid of the Writ, and pardoning much. There has come to you light from God, and a clear Writ
(5:15)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nO doctors of the Law: Our messenger has come to you making clear to you, upon an interval between the messengers lest you say: \u201cThere came not to us any bearer of glad tidings or warner.\u201d But there has come to you a bearer of glad tidings and warner; and God is over all things powerful.
(5:19)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe Messiah, son of Mary, was but a messenger; messengers had passed away before him; and his mother was a woman of truth; they both ate food. See thou how We make plain the proofs to them; then see thou how they are deluded.
(5:75)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd they swear by God their strongest oaths: \u201cGod will not raise up him who dies.\u201d Verily, it is a promise binding upon Him, \u2014 but most men know not \u2014
That He might make plain to them that wherein they differ, and that those who ignore warning might know that they were liars.
(16:38-39)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd when Jesus came with the clear signs, he said: \u201cI have come to you with wisdom, and to make plain some of that concerning that wherein you differ; so be in prudent fear of God, and obey me.
(43:63)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAs we can see, the Qu\u2019ran uses the phrase \u201cmake plain\u201d in a generic sense only. To claim that 16:44 is referring to the hadith literature \u2014 which was never seen or authorized by Muhammad \u2014 is deceptive and fraudulent. Nowhere in the Qur\u2019an does it state that Muhammad was to explain the Qur\u2019an, issue edicts allowing and prohibiting things, or divine the future; only God explains the Qur\u2019an.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Move thou not thy tongue with it to hasten it.
Upon Us is its gathering and its recitation.
And when We recite it, follow thou the recitation thereof.
Then upon Us is its clarification.)
(75:16-19)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMuhammad\u2019s duty was the same as the messengers before him: notification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And if they argue with thee, then say thou: \u201cI have submitted my face to God, as have those who follow me.\u201d And say thou to those given the Writ and to the unschooled: \u201cHave you submitted?\u201d And if they have submitted, then are they guided; but if they turn away, then upon thee is only the notification; and God sees the servants.
(3:20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd obey God and obey the Messenger, and beware; but if you turn away, then know that upon Our messenger is only the clear notification.
(5:92)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nUpon the Messenger is only the notification; and God knows what you reveal and what you conceal.
(5:99)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd whether We show thee part of what We promise them, or We take thee, but upon thee is the notification; and upon Us is the reckoning.
(13:40)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd those who ascribe a partnership say: \u201cHad God willed, we would not have served, besides Him, anything \u2014 neither we nor our fathers \u2014 nor would we have forbidden anything contrary to Him\u201d; thus did those before them. Then is there upon the messengers save the clear notification?
(16:35)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd if they turn away, upon thee is only the clear notification.
(16:82)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIn this is a notification for people who serve.
(21:106)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd We sent thee only as a bearer of glad tidings and a warner.
(25:56)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nSo be thou patient, as those of determination among the messengers were patient, and seek thou not to hasten for them. The day they see what they are promised, it will be as though they had not tarried an hour of a day. Notification! And will there be destroyed save the perfidious people?
(46:35)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd obey God, and obey the Messenger; but if you turn away \u2014 then upon Our messenger is only the clear notification.
(64:12)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nSay thou: \u201cNone will grant me protection against God, nor will I find, besides Him, a refuge
\u201cSave notification from God and His messages.\u201d And whoso opposes God and His messenger, for him is the fire of Gehenna; they abiding eternally therein forever.
(72:22-23)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nI hope that these verses are sufficient for the sincere reader to appreciate the true job of the messenger. It was to communicate the messages of God to his audience. This is also the job of the believers, if they want to follow in the messenger\u2019s stead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Qur\u2019an is Difficult to Understand<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Rather than applying their own mind to the Qur\u2019an, Muslims prefer to blindly follow the opinions of their ulemas who, in turn, follow the hadith literature and the opinions and edicts of their forebears; a classic case of the blind leading the blind. However, the Qur\u2019an is not difficult to understand, we must apply our intelligence and ponder on its verses. There are no shortcuts to salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And We have made it easy in thy tongue, only that thou bear glad tidings therewith to those of prudent fear, and thou warn therewith a contentious people.
(19:97)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nWill they then not consider the Qur\u2019an with care! If there be locks upon their hearts:
(47:24)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd We taught him not poetry, and it does not behove him; it is only a remembrance and a clear recitation
To warn whoso is alive, and that the word might become binding against the false claimers of guidance.
(36:69-70)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd We have made it easy in thy tongue, that they might take heed.
(44:58)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd We have made the Qur\u2019an easy for remembrance; so is there any who will remember?
(54:17)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nHe it is that sends down to His servant clear proofs, that He might bring you out of darkness into the light; and God is to you kind and merciful.
(57:9)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMuhammad given special knowledge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Muslims claim that God gave special divine knowledge to Muhammad, Wisdom, besides the Qur\u2019an. This argument, like most of the Muslims\u2019 arguments, assumes that the Qur\u2019an is not clear, complete, and fully detailed. Muslims point to the following verses in support of their claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like as I have sent to you a messenger from among you reciting to you Our proofs and increasing you in purity and teaching you the Writ and wisdom and teaching you what you knew not,
(2:151)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nGod indeed showed favour to the believers when He raised up among them a messenger among themselves, reciting to them His proofs, and increasing them in purity, and teaching them the Writ and wisdom \u2014 though they were before in manifest error.
(3:164)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nHe it is that raised up among the unschooled a messenger from among them, reciting to them His proofs, and increasing them in purity, and teaching them the Writ and wisdom \u2014 though they were before in manifest error \u2014
(62:2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nA superficial reading seems to support the Muslims\u2019 claim that Muhammad received wisdom besides the Qur\u2019an. But let us investigate further. I agree with Muslims that Muhammad received divine knowledge, the Qur\u2019an (which contains the Writ). But was he given extra knowledge (Wisdom) besides the Qur\u2019an?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And remember what is recited within your houses of the proofs of God and of wisdom; God is subtle and aware.
(33:34)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd there has come to them of reports that wherein is deterrence:
Far-reaching wisdom; but the warnings avail not.
(54:4-5)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd when you divorce women, and they have reached their term, then retain them according to what is fitting or release them according to what is fitting. And retain them not through harm, to transgress; and whoso does that has wronged himself. And take not the proofs of God in mockery; and remember the favour of God upon you, and what He has sent down to you of the Writ and wisdom whereby He admonishes you. And be in prudent fear of God, and know that God knows all things.
(2:231)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe Qur\u2019an usage of wisdom is in a generic sense and certainly cannot be interpreted to mean divine knowledge given to Muhammad besides the Qur\u2019an. Prophet Muhammad was given the Qur\u2019an, nothing else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We Must go to Muhammad for Judgment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Another argument put forth by Muslims is that God commands the believers to go to the Messenger for judgment. They consider deriving judgments from hadith literature to be the same as submitting to the judgment of a living Messenger! Let us look at the verses in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And they say: \u201cWe believe in God and the Messenger, and we obey\u201d; then a faction among them turns away after that \u2014 and those are not believers.
And when they are invited to God and His messenger, that he judge between them, then a faction among them turns away.
But if the truth be theirs, they come to him in willing submission.
Is there in their hearts a disease? If they doubt, or fear that God would deal unjustly with them \u2014 or would His messenger: \u2014 nay, it is they who are the wrongdoers.
The only word of the believers, when they are invited to God and His messenger, that he judge between them, is that they say: \u201cWe hear and we obey,\u201d \u2014 and it is they who are the successful.
And whoso obeys God and His messenger, and fears God, and is in prudent fear of Him: \u2014 it is they who are the attainers of success.
(24:47-52)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIt is clear from the surrounding context that this is referring to a faction who did not come to the Messenger for judgment during his lifetime. Since the Messenger is dead, we cannot apply these verses to our present situation. As I mentioned earlier, there are some verses in the Qur\u2019an that were applicable to the believers during Muhammad\u2019s lifetime. It is ridiculous to derive rulings from sayings attributed to Muhammad \u2014 which he neither read nor approved of \u2014 to the rulings of a living, breathing Messenger. In any case, Muhammad was bound to judge people by God\u2019s scripture, as were prophets and men of God before him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And how come they to thee for judgment when they have the Torah wherein is the judgment of God, then turn away after that? And those are not believers.
We sent down the Torah wherein is guidance and light. The prophets who submitted judged thereby those who hold to Judaism as did the rabbis and the religious scholars with what \u00adthey were given charge of the Writ of God and were thereto witnesses: \u201cSo fear not mankind but fear Me; and sell not My proofs at a cheap price.\u201d And whoso judges not by what God has sent down, it is they who are the false claimers of guidance.
And We prescribed for them therein a life for a life, and an eye for an eye, and a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, and a tooth for a tooth, and for wounds just requital; but whoso forgives it by way of charity, it is an expiation for him. And whoso judges not by what God has sent down: it is they who are the wrongdoers.
And We sent Jesus, son of Mary in their footsteps confirming what was before him of the Torah; and We gave him the Gospel wherein was guidance and light, both confirming what was before him of the Torah and as guidance and admonition for those of prudent fear.
And let the people of the Gospel judge by what God sent down therein; and whoso judges not by what God has sent down: it is they who are the perfidious.
And We sent down to thee the Writ with the truth, confirming what is before it of the Writ, and as a control over it. So judge thou between them by what God has sent down; and follow thou not their vain desires away from what has come to thee of the truth. For each of you We appointed an ordinance and a procedure. And had God willed, He could have made you one community; but that He might try you in what He gave you[\u2026]. \u2014 So vie in good deeds; unto God will you return all together, and He will inform you of that wherein you differed \u2014
And judge thou between them by what God has sent down; and follow thou not their vain desires, and beware thou of them lest they seduce thee away from some of what God has sent down to thee. And if they turn away, know thou that God but intends to afflict them for some of their transgressions; and many among men are perfidious.
Is it the judgment of ignorance they seek? And who is better than God in judgment for people who are certain?
(5:43-50)<\/p>
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAccept some hadith and reject others<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Liberal Muslims, realizing that some hadiths contradict the Qur\u2019an and are backwards, propose a compromise: accept hadiths that agree with the Qur\u2019an and reason. This is a last ditch effort to save their beloved hadiths from irrelevance. Yet, if they claim that the hadith is part of their doctrine \u2014 i.e. it is part of the Writ \u2014 they must accept every single hadith; there can be no half-measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then are you those who kill your own, and turn a faction among you out of their homes, assisting one another against them in sin and enmity; and if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, but unlawful for you was their expulsion. Do you believe in part of the Writ and deny part? Then what is the reward of him among you who does that save disgrace in the life of this world? And on the Day of Resurrection they are sent back to the harshest punishment; and God is not unmindful of what you do.
(2:85)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe sane approach is to take all of the Qur\u2019an \u2014 and only the Qur\u2019an \u2014 as guidance and law:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He it is that sent down upon thee the Writ; among it are explicit proofs: they are the foundation of the Writ; and others are ambiguous. Then as for those in whose hearts is deviation: they follow what is ambiguous thereof, seeking the means of denial, and seeking its interpretation. And no one knows its interpretation save God, and those firm in knowledge; they say: \u201cWe believe in it; all is from our Lord.\u201d But only those of insight take heed.
(3:7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The Qur\u2019an was compiled after Muhammad\u2019s death<\/h2>\n\n\n\nMuslims claim that Qur\u2019an was compiled in the form of a book after Muhammad\u2019s death. And to bolster this claim, they make an even stranger claim; that Muhammad was illiterate. They say that he was an ummiyi (illiterate) and present the following verse as proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Say thou: \u201cO mankind: I am the messenger of God to you all together \u2014 to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no god save He. He gives life and He gives death.\u201d So believe in God and His messenger, the unschooled prophet, who believes in God and His words; and follow him, that you might be guided.)
(7:158)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe word ummiyi does not mean illiterate. According to the Qur\u2019an, it means a man who is ignorant of the Writ i.e. the profane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He it is that raised up among the unschooled a messenger from among them, reciting to them His proofs, and increasing them in purity, and teaching them the Writ and wisdom \u2014 though they were before in manifest error \u2014
(62:2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd among them are those unschooled: they know not the Writ save vain desires; and they are only assuming.
(2:78)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd if they argue with thee, then say thou: \u201cI have submitted my face to God, as have those who follow me.\u201d And say thou to those given the Writ and to the unschooled: \u201cHave you submitted?\u201d And if they have submitted, then are they guided; but if they turn away, then upon thee is only the notification; and God sees the servants.
(3:20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nIs it not strange that a man who received a revelation from God would not do his best to compile this message in the form of a book during his lifetime? If his companions were transcribing the revelation, would he not verify their work? God had already warned Muhammad of hypocrites unknown to him in his midst. Let us be reasonable. Muhammad did indeed know how to read and write. The Qur\u2019an was codified in the form of a book within his lifetime. It was not written down on the bones of animals, cloth, or any other material conjured up in the imaginations of Islamic scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By a Writ inscribed
In a parchment unrolled!
(52:2-3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nNo, indeed! It is a reminder,
So whoso wills might remember it,
In honoured pages,
Exalted and purified,
By the hands of scribes
Noble and virtuous.
(80:11-16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe truth is, it is a glorious recitation,
In a protected tablet.
(85:21-22)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nMuslims have been played by their forbears; by getting them to accept that the Qur\u2019an was compiled by Muhammad\u2019s companions after his death, the inventors of the religion of Islam have tricked Muslims into accepting the veracity of the hadith literature. They question those who are skeptical of the hadith: how can you reject the hadith literature when it was relayed through the very same companions of the prophet who compiled the Qur\u2019an? This question effectively neutralizes those who dare question the reliability of the hadith literature. Yet, the fact of the matter is that the Qur\u2019an was compiled during Muhammad\u2019s lifetime while the hadith was compiled centuries after his death. Muhammad did not leave it to others to compile the Qur\u2019an however vociferously the inventers of religion market this fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Qur\u2019an is in Arabic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Muslims claim that Arabic is a holy and special language which can only be understood by the Arabs. The fact of the matter is that Arabic, like any language, can be mastered. Native Arab speakers do not understand the Qur\u2019an. If they did, they would stop relying on non-Qur\u2019anic literature \u2014 the Qur\u2019an explicitly states that it is complete, clear, and fully detailed.
Language is not a barrier to understand the Qur\u2019an. The Qur\u2019an is a message to all of mankind. God opens up His guidance to whom He wills.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt is a noble recitation
In a hidden Writ,
\u2014 None will touch it save those purified\u2014
(56:77-79)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd had We made it a recitation in a foreign tongue, they would have said: \u201cOh, that its proofs were but set out and detailed \u2014 a foreign tongue and an Arab!\u201d Say thou: \u201cIt is for those who heed warning a guidance and a healing\u201d; but those who do not believe: in their ears is deafness, and it is for them blindness; those: they are called from a far place.
(41:44)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThe fact of the matter is that Muslims will not accept to follow the Qur’an alone as it does not contain the details of their religion which they inherited from their ancestors. I should know as I was born into a Sunni family myself and was a follower of the religion of Islam for the better part of my life until God guided me to His straight path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when it is said to them: \u201cFollow what God has sent down,\u201d they say: \u201cNay, we will follow that upon which we found our fathers.\u201d \u2014 Even though the satan invites them to the punishment of the Inferno?
And whoso submits his face to God, and is a doer of good, he has grasped the most firm handhold; and to God is the final outcome of matters.
(31:21-22)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nI thank Sam Gerrans for many of the ideas presented in this article. All translation are from his work The Qur’an: A Complete Revelation which can be read for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In this article, we look at the 9 common arguments that Muslims make when they are told to follow the Qur’an alone \u2014 since it is clear, complete and detailed. Obey God and Obey the Messenger Muslims are quick to point to Qur\u2019anic verses that command the believers to obey God and the messenger. Let … <\/p>\n