 بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أنبياء الله جميعا وعلى سيدهم وخاتمهم حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيتنا الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المنتجبين الذين أذهب الله عنهم الرجس وطهرهم تطهيرا الحمد لله الذي جعلنا من المتمسكين بولاية أمير المؤمنين علي يبنى أبي طالر عليه الصلاة والسلام سورة يونس آية 15 and 16 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وإذا تتلع عليهم آياتنا بينات قال الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا إأتي بقرآن غير هذا أو بدله قل ما يكون لأن أبدله من تلقاء نفسي إن أتبع إلا ما يحا إلي إني أفاف إن أصيط ربي عذاب يوم عظيم قل لو شاء الله ما تلوته عليكم ولا أدراكم به فقد لبثت فيكم عمورا من قبله أفلا تعقلون صدق الله العلي العظيم في this verse سورة يونس chapter 10 verse number 15 وإذا تطلع عليهم آياتنا بينات when the prophet rehearses or rehearses the words of God the words of this book the Holy Quran in a very plain and clear language بينات very obvious very plain قال الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا those who have no hope in meeting us tomorrow on the day of judgment those who disbelieve in the day of judgment they say the following they say the following اطي بقرآن غيرها ذا أو بدل bring us another book we don't like this book this book there is too much restrictions prohibitions in this book don't do this don't say that don't approach this don't worship this so please bring us another book this book does not work for us اطي بقرآن غيرها ذا أو بدل change it قل ما يكون لي أن أبدله من تلقاء نفسي say to them يا رسول الله say to your community that I cannot change the book out of my own desire this is something that has been given to me by God this is the revelation of God this is not something that I have written قل ما يكون لي أن أبدله من تلقاء نفسي اتبعو إلا ما يوحى إلي I only follow what God has revealed to me so this is not something out of my desire what I have in this book and what I am telling you is from this book which is the revelation of God now few points in this regard point number one some of the people who are stubborn who are the stubborn a stubborn who do not those who do not want to listen to the truth the stubborn are those who follow their own desire they don't follow the truth they don't follow justice they don't follow logic they follow their own desire and someone can be a stubborn who is 2 years old or 10 years old or 20 years old or 40 years old or 60 years old or even 90 years old sometimes people think that only children are stubborn they don't listen not necessarily only children we have some adult some youth some middle age old age men women some of them are none educated some of them are very educated some of them are poor some of them are wealthy they become stubborn they don't want they don't like to listen to the logical discourse they have an idea in their mind and they defend this idea at any cost this is inad stubbornness this is inad so those people some of them they want the book this book the holy Quran to follow them they don't want to follow the book are you with me this is the difference people who have good intention people who are submissive to God submissive to God they listen to the Quran but people who are non submissive to God they want the Quran to listen to them they want God to listen to them and follow them they don't want to follow God one time I was sitting in airplane next to me there was an American sitting next to me he asked me what religious minister I said yes what religion I said to him Islam he said I have a problem with Islam I said only one problem it's good if you have one problem he said that the problem is very big I said what is it he said in Islam you advocate in your religion you advocate submissiveness to God you surrender to God you submit yourself completely to God absolute submissiveness and I don't like this this is not good I am a free man I don't want someone to control me I said to him you don't want to be submissive to God but I am sure you are submissive to your own wife you listen to your wife your wife controls you don't tell me I don't want to be submissive to God in this you are submissive to the law aren't you submissive to the law can you drive the way you like here you can't do that there is a speed limit can you do anything you like in the community in the society even at your own house that you own it with your own money sometimes the association it tells you what to do and what not to do although you own the house so you have to listen second God is not a dictator when God tells you don't drink it's for you not against you when God tells you don't gamble it is for you not against you when God tells you not to break the law not to abuse yourself this is for you not against you so he is not a dictator he is not a dictator so there were some people always at any time they want this book to follow their desire they don't want to follow the Quran or God this is an example in verse 15 an example of them وإذا تطلع عليهم آياتنا بيناتن قال الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا اقتي بقرآن غير هذا أو بدل نحن لا نحن لا نحن لا نحن لا نحن there were a group who came to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in Mecca they said to him يا محمد we would follow you provided that you bring a book that respect our idols because in your book your book is very offensive so go change it bring a book that respects our idols then we would listen to you then we would listen to you the Prophet said first of all this is revelation from Allah second idol worshipping idolatry and Islam they do not get along one of them is Islam is based on monotheism idolatry is based on what polytheism shirk and they don't get along they don't get along when you worship idols you submit yourselves to the idols I submit myself to Allah there is a big difference there is a huge difference so I cannot change this book it's not up to me I have given this book to pass it to you not to change it not to modify this book not to modify it and we have the example of this group in all societies at all times even now I have spoken with some Muslims who say I wish the Quran is modified becomes like the bible we change for instance hijab is not mentioned here zakat is not mentioned jihad make it American friendly book you know we have this example those are the Muslims the non-Muslims Israel 50 years ago they sent a delegation to Jamal Abdel Nasser the Egyptian president back in the 60s saying to him that we will give you money there are verses that anti-Semitic in this book remove them modify this book because we want to create build bridges with the Muslims as long as you have these verses that they think it is anti-Semitic it's not anti-Semitic it's not it's not anti-Semitic but they think it's anti-Semitic anti-Jews it's not anti-Jews so remove them from the Quran and we are ready to give at that time 50, 60 years millions of dollars and we will reproduce the book we will print it in Israel and distribute this book if you are worried about the cost if you are worried about the cost of the printing we will sponsor that see we have these mentalities when they don't like something let's change it rather than trying to understand it understand what Allah is saying and accept it and try to change themselves they come to the book and they want to change it and this is why my friends you know now you know the difference between Quran and other books other books have been changed have been changed the Old Testament the New Testament the Torah the Injeel the Gospels they were changed because of the desire of the people because people who are influential they don't want to follow the rules the rules of God set for them by God even today in the church in America America and elsewhere same sex marriage today in many churches it has been blessed and accepted and they perform it in the church same sex marriage while in their own book if they read the book it is banned it is considered a sin the same thing with the Jewish community there is a rabbi in Los Angeles I read this article in the Los Angeles Times despite his congregation rejecting this he says no there is no problem with me today we live in a different world in an open world so we have to accept this and I am ready to soulmenize the same sex marriage in the synagogue in the synagogue in the Jewish synagogue they change it why because some people they don't like it so what they don't like let them change themselves can we say to the American government I don't like this law change it because I don't like it me and my family would they listen to me they say get lost we have to respect the law of the land so this problem existed during the time of the prophet some people they commercialized religion they thought that they can change the divine law by their money by their influence by their politics so the prophet had to listen to them and bring a law a modified law that serves their own narrow interests الله says I don't do that قل ما يكون لي I cannot never it's up to me ما يكون لي انا أبديله من تلقاء نفسي اين اتبعو إلا ما يحائلي this is what I am telling you I have been instructed by Allah to follow this to follow this strict rules we have to respect it try to change yourself try to look at what you are doing and find your faults and change yourself so why they want to change the book where is it the Quran gives the answer very beautiful الله says those who do not believe in the Akhira it's a big problem because the one who does not believe in the Akhira in the hereafter it means he does not believe in God it means he does not believe in the entire religion furthermore it means that he or she do not believe in the accountability and responsibility just like the American friend in the airplane who told me I don't like Islam because I don't like to follow someone they don't like to be responsible people who do not believe in Akhira they don't like the spirit of responsibility they want to be free in their desires in their actions in their behavior they want to be free so they don't believe in the Akhira because Akhira teaches us the first thing we learn from the belief in the hereafter in the day of judgment is that we are responsible for everything we say and everything we do we are responsible today what did you do today you are accountable for it whether you did that in public in private whether you said something whether you saw something whether you heard something whether you reacted to something you are accountable you will see it right before your eyes وكل الإنسان في القرآن every individual كل الإنسان ألزمناه طائره في عنقه we bring his book his file it is attached to his neck your file of the FBI the intelligence service they bring it everything you did they attach it to your neck on the day of judgment ألزمناه طائره في عنقه ونخرج له يوم القيامة كتابا يلقاه يلقاه what من شورة أحسنت and then we bring that book on the day of judgment we open it for him and we say to him إقرأ كتابك read what you did in this life look at what you did in this life for eight years look into this book إقرأ كتابك كفى بنفسك اليوم عليك حسيب حسيب means controller someone who holds you accountable you will be accountable for what you did and you will hold yourself responsible you yourself on that day you hold yourself responsible you don't need someone to hold you responsible you are going to do that for yourself كفى بنفسك اليوم عليك حسيب this is why when we believe in the Akher we become good people because we know there is a price there is a price for everything we say and everything we do I have a friend who came to America and he got a credit card for the first time in his life you know back home you carry cash with you always you pay cash nobody pays with a credit card and when the cash is over الحمد لله you don't purchase anything you wait until you get some money here in this country you have in your wallet small card very small wherever you go you swipe the card and they charge so he got the credit card and he was so happy he thought this is civilization modernity he is very civilized now happy that he has a small card in his pocket so he kept going and purchasing things left and right left and right left and right until the end of the month he gets the bill wow what's this he almost had a heart attack when he saw the bill he tells me he says I looked at the bill wow is this real yeah and he didn't keep he didn't keep the receipts you know he threw them away so he forgot what he purchased on the day of judgment it will be the same here we speak left and right we act left and right we do this and we do that left and right on the day of judgment the book says you did this all these things there is a price for everything we did there is a price nothing can be can get away with God's judgment and God's justice and God's accountability sometimes here we throw words left and right we abuse people we accuse them we tell lies and we think nothing happened but these are recorded in a book وكل شيء احصيناه في كتاب مبين هر حرف كميزانين هر أمالي هر كرداري مادرين يكتابي انججام كاردي بارتوب روزة قيامتة من أرمي بينيت you will see everything you said everything sometimes we say things we forget we abuse people verbally physically emotionally and then we forget two days later we forget God does not forget God does not forget so the belief in the achar keeps me under control I know I cannot escape punishment so if I do something bad I have to resort immediately to restoration I have to fix the damage I did to myself and to others immediately I should not wait until I die until death it is too late too late ان اتبعوا إلا ما يوحى إلي اني أخافوا ان عصيت ربي عذاب يوم عظيم the prophet tells them listen even me who is the messenger of God the closest one to God if I commit a sin and I change one single verse in this book I will be punished اني أخافوا ان عصيت ربي عذاب عذاب عظيم عذاب يوم عظيم I fear God would hold me responsible and he wants to hold me responsible and he will punish me on that day so I have no right to change anything in this book الله سبحانه وتعالى says in another verse about the prophet some people they have suspicion that maybe the prophet he put this out of his desire he put this inserted this verse this law this injunction Allah says ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل if this man رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم if he fabricates تقول means fabricates out of himself fabricates some statements on my behalf God says on my behalf ولو تقول علينا بعض الأقاويل لا أخذنا منه بليمين we would hold him with his right arm it's a metaphor metaphor this is a metaphor لا أخذنا منه بليمين ثم لقطعنا منه الواتين we will cut off his jugular vein we will destroy him this man the man that we love him so much if one day he dares to say something wrong on behalf of God he will be punished immediately immediately so the prophet does not say anything out of his own desire whatever he says وما يمطق عن الهواء إن هو إلا وحي يوحى then number 16 and I conclude قل لو شاء الله ما تلوته عليكم ولا أدراكم به فقد لبثت فيكم عمورا من قبله أفلا تعقلون the prophet says to his community this book that God has sent you it's for your goodness and your interest and your salvation it's not for God's benefit God is not benefiting from sending the book to you God is not opening a business called religion and he's a profiting out of this business you are the one who are profiting الله says حديث حديث الحجزي يا عبادي ما خلقتكم لأربح عليكم بل خلقتكم لتربح وعلي my servants I did not create you to make a prophet out of you I created you so you make a prophet out of me you make a prophet out of me to get my blessing my guidance my mercy we are making a prophet out of God he's not making any prophet he's غني he's غني and this is exactly what he said to Musa one day God said to Musa oh Musa tell your community in Israel tell them tell them if the entire people of the globe they reject God and they disbelieve in God God would not be hurt don't think God will sit there oh nobody's worshipping me today I'm sad nobody's paying his zakat or fasting he would not do that one day God did exist and none of us existed none of us no church no temple no synagogue none he didn't feel lonely he didn't feel lonely God is not like us God is not an attention seeker he's not surviving on us we are surviving on him we need him he's غني self-sufficient this is the main point when I discuss with the Christian friends about Jesus I said to them listen listen the difference between Islam and Christianity I can epitomize this in one single sentence in Islam we believe God is self-sufficient God is self-sufficient غني so God cannot be Jesus because Jesus is not self-sufficient Jesus needs to eat he needs to sleep he needs to use the bathroom he needs to talk to people and he feels lonely Jesus is a is not the son of God neither God he's a human being yes divinely inspired by God sent by God messenger of God holy man that's right but he's not God God is different God is self-sufficient God does not need anything including himself if you read دعاء الإمام الحسين on the day of Arafat just eight days ago nine days ago دعاء the beautiful دعاء supplication of Imam Hussein in that doa there is a peace a sentence that says إلهي you don't even need yourself let alone me he's self-sufficient he's self-sufficient so here the prophet says this book is for you and God he could have he could have not sent this book to you yes as he's guiding you he had the freedom of choice not to send you any guidance so when he decided to send this book it was for you not against you this is for you you are not doing him a favor he's doing you a favor by sending this book and then he says some of them said to him يا محمد this book is your work don't say this is the work of God the prophet is saying فقد لبثت فيكم عمران I lived among you for 40 years you never heard in these 40 years you never heard any sentence anything of this book for 40 years all of a sudden at the age of 40 I started giving you the book so if this was my work I authored this book I compiled this book why you did not hear anything about it for up to 40 years why this means that this is not my book this is revelation of Allah and Allah sent me to you at the age of 40 فقد لبثت فيكم عمران من قد له أفلا تعقلون and insha Allah we will continue on Surat Yunus in the upcoming weeks