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If you welcome back to another Q&A and today in inshallah we have a number of questions as usual from around the globe that are

or pertinent once again, the email to send the questions to is askYQ, askYQ at EpicMestjid,

one word, epicepicimestjid.org. And once again, for the record, I choose from hundreds of questions,

those questions that I think are going to be the maximum benefit. And I reiterate that

I cannot answer individual emails. So please don't send me specific questions, especially

about marriage and divorce that requires specific fatwas. We talk about generic issues that

lots of people benefit from. So we begin. Our first question for today, brother Satak from Indonesia,

emails and asks about the ruling of nutmeg in Islam because he says that he uses it regularly

in his cuisine and spices and yet he just heard a fatwas that says that it is halam. So this

is a spicy question, insha'Allah, pun intended. Nutmeg is of course the name given to the seed of a

particular plant. Its biological name is, and I'm going to butcher the name here,

Nostitia Frank Grantz, which is mainly harvested in Indonesia. Indonesia is the largest exporter of

nutmeg and so our brother Satak is emailing from Indonesia. And of course it's also produced in India

to a lesser degree in other places. And it is used as a spice or a flavoring in many, many cultures.

And in particular the Southeast and Southeast Asian cultures. So India, Pakistan, Bangladesh,

Bhutan, Nepal and of course Indonesia, Malaysia, especially in these. But also even in the Western

cultures, even there's a famous drink here that is done in Western lands that it involves nutmeg

and what not. So it's a very common spice here. And this, the term for nutmeg and Arabic is

Joseph the Three. And there's also called Joseph Hind as well ascribed to India. Even though it does

not typically originate from India, meaning it's not the main source. However, in the good old days,

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