A Juz That Starts and Ends on a Seam

Juz 14 is unusually clean at both ends: it opens exactly where Ibrahim leaves off and closes exactly where An-Nahl does, so its entire span consists of precisely two complete surahs, all ninety-nine verses of Al-Hijr and all one hundred and twenty-eight verses of An-Nahl, with no fragment of any other surah included on either side.

In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the fourteenth night's portion, though many mosques recite faster to finish early in the month or slower to spread the reading further, and some congregations instead divide the whole Quran among thirty reciters for a single collective khatm. Huffaz reviewing memorised portions often pace themselves by a juz's two hizb and four quarter-hizb divisions rather than by surah, since these evenly sized units make a consistent daily review schedule possible regardless of where a surah boundary falls. Printed Mushafs typically mark each juz's opening in the margin with a small medallion inscribed with its number, a page-level convention distinct from the finer hizb and quarter-hizb marks placed within the text itself to guide reciters mid-portion. Some Mushaf editions additionally shade or border the margin differently for each hizb, so a reciter can judge progress through the juz at a glance without counting verses.