Closing Juz 1, a Night's Portion Ends Mid Argument

Hizb 2 is the second half of Juz 1, and in a Ramadan tarawih schedule that paces one juz per night, it is ordinarily the back half of the first night's recitation, picked up wherever the reciter left the community at Hizb 1's midpoint. Like every hizb it carries its own four rub al-hizb quarter marks in the margin of a printed Mushaf, distinct from the medallion that marks where Juz 1 itself ends and Juz 2 begins.

That juz boundary falls, characteristically, without regard for the argument in progress: this hizb ends with Al-Baqara's treatment of Abraham still fresh and the qibla controversy about to open, and the next juz simply continues from there. Some congregations recite faster than one juz a night to finish the whole Quran well before Ramadan ends, others slower to spread a single khatm across the whole month, and some divide the text among thirty simultaneous reciters for one collective completion rather than pacing it through a single voice.

For a hafiz reviewing memorised material outside of Ramadan entirely, the two ahzab of a juz and their four quarters apiece offer a steadier daily unit than surah boundaries can, since Al-Baqara alone spans the whole of Juz 1 and Juz 2 and half of Juz 3 without a single natural pause of its own.