Four games worth an evening
Nothing here is timed and nothing here is scored against anybody else. Take one, put it down, come back to it next week.
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The Courtyard of Lights
Ninety-nine lamps, one for each Name you come to know. The courtyard stays lit when you return.
Eleven levels · nine Names each
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Step by Step
Wudu, one rak'ah, sujud as-sahw, salat al-janazah. Put the steps back in their order — be wrong forty times at home, alone, at midnight.
Four levels · Hanafi practice
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The Road
Twelve stages of the seerah, from the cave of Hira to the opening of Makkah. At Hudaybiyyah, you decide whether to sign.
Twelve stages · nothing is scored
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Ayah by Ayah
Juz Amma, patiently. Arabic with English and Urdu, then the words back into their order. No timer, no score, and nothing is ever marked wrong.
Thirty-seven surahs · 78 to 114
The teaching content in these games — the renderings of the Names, the order of the steps, and the seerah — is to be read by the masjid’s imam before it is used to teach anybody. Where a point of fiqh differs between the schools, the game says so rather than pretending there is only one answer.