However, if you play a card which does make a capture, you must make the capture. Queens and kings have no numerical value. A queen can capture or be captured by a queen and a king can capture or be captured by a king. A basra occurs when a player captures all the cards from the floor, leaving it empty. The player scores a 10 point bonus for this, and the capturing card is placed faced up in the player's capture pile, as a way of remembering the bonus when the time comes to score the hand.
Jacks have a special property.
If you play a jack when there are cards on the floor, it captures all the cards from the floor, leaving it empty, but this does not count as a basra and scores no bonus. If you play a jack when the floor is empty it does not capture anything, but just remains on the floor. In the Lebanese description the jack is called ashush , which in colloquial Arabic means an imam. The seven of diamonds behaves in a similar way to a jack - it captures everything on the floor. If the cards on the floor are all numerals, and their values add up to 10 or less, this counts as a basra, and scores the 10 point bonus.