Huquq game

 This activity teaches children about the Right of God (Huququ’llah).  Use it with the Notes on the Fund and Huququ’llah or similar material.

 It is meant to help the players to feel at home with the huquq and feel it is fun to pay as well as being a sacred obligation which brings joy to the believer. It covers the following points:

• When huquq is payable
• How much it is
• It is only payable once on each sum of money received
• The relevance of a huquq unit
• How to treat debts (such as a bank overdraft)
• How to treat necessary expenses.

It does not cover the practice among salary earners and monthly pensioners of paying huquq on their income (less necessary expenses) once or twice a year instead of every month. The teacher can explain this.

 The money can be Monopoly money, but as the notes only go up to £500, you will need some £1,000 coins.  To add interest these can be chocolate mints in gold paper.  At the end of the game they can be shared out between the players.

 Have a calculator available to work out the huquq if a player gets into difficulties.  Set it up to calculate 19% of any amount entered.  (Try entering 19/100 and pressing “x” twice.  Then enter a number and hit “=” and 19% of the number should appear.)

 It is desirable to have an adult or older child as the “trustee” collecting the huquq.  He/she can refuse to accept it if it is not offered in the right spirit. You may also need a banker (who can be the same person) to pay out and collect the rest of the money mentioned on the cards.

 At the beginning the players have, say, £1000 each and the rest of the money is in the bank. The shuffled cards are face down on the table.  The players each take a card in turn, read it, collect any money due from the bank and decide what to do with it.  They keep whatever is left.  A few cards direct a payment out, which is made to the bank.

 The directions on the cards to pay do not imply that huquq would actually be payable in the circumstances mentioned. Many of the situations have had to be stated in simple terms.  On some points indeed there may be no guidance: for example, as to necessary expenses expected to arise in the future.  Presumably in this case the believers must decide for themselves what to do.

 Some of the money will be too small in amount to attract huquq.  The players should keep this separate from the rest of their money so that they can see when it has grown to a huquq unit.

 The game ends when the available time runs out or all the cards have been used.  There are no winners.

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