The IslamicText Family Trivia game, created by Shaykh Allie Khalfe, is designed to

educate, stimulate and empower Muslims as well as communities from various faiths
with the rich legacy of the Islamic tradition.

A brief sumamry of how the game works: The game

consists of 250 cards. These cards are spread amongst 8
catagories including Fiqh, Tawhīd, Arabic, History, General,
Special, Egypt and Makkah.

Players aim at answering questions correctly thereby engaging in

the persuit of traditional in the most enjoyable way possible. A
correct answer yields 2 rewards [thawāb]. Once a player hits 20
thawāb, he or she unlocks the first gate of paradise [jannah]. As
players accumulate thwāb they quickly work their way through
the various levels of paradise toward the highlest level, al-
Firdaws.

The first player to reach 140 thawāb unlocks al-Firdaws and is

the winner. Along the journey a card may direct a player to
Egypt, which is a separate deck of cards focussing on questions
related to Egyptian history. One remains here until a card
permits one to either continue the journey to paradise or to
travel to Makkah, which is another set of cards focussing on
Meccan history. If one reaches 80 thawāb in either Egypt or
Makkah then one dies a martyr [shahīd] and automatically enters
al-Firdaws.

Trivia compeition: The trivia game is part of a larger educational project, headed by
Shaykh Allie Khalfe, and will be hosted at 15 institutes and schools within the western
cape as a competition amongst the youth. Some of these institutes include Islamia
primary, Darul Arqam, IslamicText Institute, Habibia primary, and more.

The trivia game will be available for purchase at particular schools in the Western Cape
including the Islamia College. We encourage parents to get involved in this exciting and
innovative method of learning and to have your children practise the game at home so as to
prepare for the competion this year. Winners will compete for a spot on radio, television and
a live finals at the CTICC. Exciting prizes will be awarded to the winners and their
respective schools.
Launch date: The game will be launched on Saturday 23
February 2019, 17:00, at the Islamia Academia Auditorium
in Lansdowne, Cape Town, where educators from various
institues will gather for a demonstration of the game.

As mentioned, the game is part of a bigger educational project,

which will see seperate games in the future, including Arabic,
Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Ulum al-Quran, Logic, and more. These
individual games will complement the new textsbooks Shaykh
Allie is curently working on, all based on traditional sources
like the Ihya ulum al-din of Imam Ghazali, the Itqan of Imam
Suyuti, the Hikam of Ibn Ata-illah, the Jawharah of Imam
Laqani, commentaries on Fiqh by Imam Bajuri and more, all tailored for the youth and
various levels of primary school learners.

These books will be in full color with stunning

animation. The games will in turn compliment
these books and used as study material where
families play these individual games with their
children in preperation for examinations. One
can but imagine the change we will be part of
where the child is excited to learn about Islam
with the family all through a trivia game.

The goal is to revive the love for learning in

the hearts of our communties thorugh reaching
out to our children for they are living in new
age. It is our responsibility as parents to live up
to their understanding of what is appealing, ass
long as it is within the permited framework of
the Islamic tradition, one deeply rooted in love,
mercy, compassiona and tolerance.
Biography – Shaykh Allie Khalfe

Allie Khalfe spent a decade learning various traditional texts from Shaykh Seraj and Shaykh
Ahmad Hendricks who are the current Shaykhs of the Azzawia Institute in Walmer Estate,
Cape Town. They in turn graduated from the Umm ul-Qura University in Mecca specializing
in Usūl al-Fiqh and spent about ten years at the feet of the ocean of knowledge, Al-Sayyid
Muhammad bin ‘Alawī al-Mālikī, may Allah be pleased with him.

Allie received from them license [ijāza] to transmit various branches of knowledge including
Islamic Jurisprudence [Al-Fiqh], Theology [Al-Tawhīd] as well as the Spiritual Sciences [Al-
Tasawwuf]. He also spent two years
at the Grand Al-Azhar Mosque in
Cairo, sitting at the feet of some of
the foremost scholars alive today,
including Shaykh Sa’īd Mamdūh,
Shaykh ‘Alī Jumu’a, Shaykh Fat’hī
‘Abdurahmān Al-Hijāzī, Shaykh
Hasan Al-Shāfi’ī and Shaykh
Hishām Kāmil, may Allah be
pleased with them, all of whom he
read traditional texts to and
received from them ijāza to transmit
these texts.

He is currently completing his Masters in Islamic Studies with a focus on Theology at

UNISA and is the founder of The IslamicText Institute in Surrey Estate, Cape Town. He
also lectured on Theology at the International Peace College of South Africa (IPSA), Madina
Institute, and has been sanctioned as an ambassador of Dār al-Iftā al-Misriyyah in Egypt.

Rehana Toefy

Secretary

IslamicText Institute

90a Jupiter Road, Surrey Estate

Cape Town, 7764