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Khums, an Uncommon card
In Islam, khums is a tax on Muslims which obligates them to pay one-fifth of their acquired wealth from the spoils of war and, according to most Muslim jurists, other specified types of income, towards various designated beneficiaries.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 168
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 17,000
Power 168 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Khums quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Khums card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is ______ from other Islamic taxes such as zakat and jizya.
Answer
separate. It is separate from other Islamic taxes such as zakat and jizya. From the Khums article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Huang Dongping. Huang Dongping 87 · Khums 82 · Law of Singapore 78 · Danube–Black Sea Canal 75 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In Islamic legal terminology, "spoils of war" refers to property and wealth looted by the Muslim army after battling with non-Muslims or raiding them.
- Khums is the first Islamic tax, which was imposed in 2 AH/624 CE, after the Battle of Badr.
- It is separate from other Islamic taxes such as zakat and jizya.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Khums article was read about 17,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Khums
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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- Law of SingaporeCommon · Society · ATK 78 DEF 90
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Khums (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Mdktb, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
