Summary: Note:<br> 1. Italicized are my suggestions of addition for clarification of the message that Nouman tries to deliver.<br> 2. Highlighted in yellow are parts that I have struggled to transcribed. Mostly Arabic. Some English terms that sound jibberish were also highlighted.<br> Inal hamdulillah… praises and honours with Arabic terms. until the 1st minute<br> Touches two verses of At-Takathur and begins with a dua from sura Taha which Moses a.s. did.<br> 1:44 begins the speech<br> First and foremost I’d like to say that its both a pleasure and an honour to be back at the home community after a long time Alhamdulillah and it’s a great joy to see all of you here.<br> Just to share my expression of joy with you I want to give you a small reminder from the Quran before I get to the Khutba Topic itself.<br> Allah Azzawajal in Suratul Insaan also called Suratul Dahr, He talks about drinks in Jannah, 3 times. Of the many things we enjoy in Paradise Allah also talks about the kinds of things we get to drink.<br> The first time he mentions these drinks in Jannah he says (Al-Insaan 76:5)<br> …..<br> Before getting into more details about the Ayaah, just Allah AZZAWAJAL mentions –<br> “Theres no doubt that the righteous they will be drinking out of cups…”<br> You know you and I, we throw a gathering for eid or aqeeqah or get together you invite some friends over, you know we don’t have/live in expensive housing so what we do is we can’t afford that much (crockery?) for so many guests so we get paper cups and we spread them out on the table and we pour these drinks in and everybody goes and gets themselves a drink. But there’s a BBQ going on in Jannah, and their drinks being spread and people are going in and drinking themselves<br> (Repeating the verse)<br> A few ayaahs later, the party gets a little better. You know, its one thing to throw a party at your house, but its another to be invited at a catering hall. Or an expensive mansion or something like that. If you’ve ever been to an expensive gathering or an exotic setting, then you don’t just go and drink yourself, the drinks are served to you. And when you get to the table the cups are already there waiting for you.<br> Allah calls that (Al-Ghasyiyah 88:14) in another place<br> <br> “Cups are Already Placed”<br> Right, just like human beings love it now. You go to the exotic invitation, and the cups are already there. And somebody comes in and pours the drink for you, you don’t have to get up and get it. So a few ayaahs later He says: (Al-Insaan 76:17)<br> …<br> “They will be given to drink in Cups..”<br> A few ayaahs before, they were getting the drinks themselves, and now they are being given the drinks, So its gotten a little more exotic.<br> But then you wonder, -how much better can it get-? I mean, it was pretty good already, they were getting drinks in Jannah and then they were being served its even better. But you wonder how much better can it get?<br> And so Allah AZZAWAJAL a few ayaahs later He says: (Al-Insaan 76:21)<br> …<br> “….Their Master, Their Lord will give them to drink.”<br> Allah will give them to drink. Subhanallah. So you know, whenever I see muslims, believers that we haven’t met for a long time, and make dua May Allah give us an opportunity to meet each other again, and if we don’t get this opportunity in this Dunya may Allah make us meet in a place where the drinks are amazing. This is the first thing I wanted to share with you.<br> But really the topic of my Khutba, is the two ayaahs from Sura At-Takathur. Just the first two ayaahs. I recited them and many of you already know them by heart. Allah AZZAWAJAL says: (At-Takathur 102:1-2)<br> <br> That’s it. That’s all I want to share with you today.<br> And the reason I want to share just these two ayaahs with you, is that one of the essential purposes of the khutba, is to make it easy for people to remember Allah,
