The Night Journey, Carried Whole

Juz 15 opens exactly where An-Nahl ends and carries the whole of Al-Isra, all one hundred and eleven verses, before opening Al-Kahf and stopping just over two-thirds of the way through its one hundred and ten verses. The Night Journey narrative that opens Al-Isra is therefore carried complete within a single nightly recitation portion.

In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the fifteenth night's portion, marking the midpoint of the month for congregations that pace the recitation evenly, though many mosques recite faster to finish early or slower to spread the reading further, and some 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.