Halal Certificate Crisis

Your family-owned halal restaurant faces immediate closure as Inspector Kazim demands 50,000 dirham by Maghrib prayer. With your reputation, livelihood, and community standing at stake, you have just hours to handle this extortion attempt. Your elderly father built this business from nothing - his heart couldn't take losing it all.

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Difficulty

B1-B2

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Scenario Overview

Your Role

Second-generation owner of Al-Barakat Restaurant

Conversation Partner

Inspector Kazim Rahman

Setting

Your office at the back of the restaurant kitchen, steam rising from pots, prayer call echoing distantly

Location

Al-Barakat Restaurant, Old Dubai

Learning Objectives

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Negotiate the bribe demand down or find way to avoid payment

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Maintain restaurant's halal certification

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Gather evidence of inspector's corruption without alerting him

About This Scenario

How It Starts

“Assalamu alaikum. Your annual certification inspection has revealed... concerning violations. But Allah is merciful, and I am a reasonable man. We can resolve this before Maghrib prayer - for 50,000 dirham. Cash only, of course.”

This is how Inspector Kazim Rahman's greeting will start.

Practice Details

Scenario ID

#258

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