Two More Surahs Fit End to End

Juz 16 finishes Al-Kahf's last thirty-six verses, then carries two complete surahs, all ninety-eight verses of Maryam and all one hundred and thirty-five verses of Ta-Ha, ending precisely on Ta-Ha's final verse. Mary's account and Moses' mission to Pharaoh are each carried whole within the same nightly recitation portion, even though the juz itself opens mid-surah.

In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the sixteenth 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, and 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 these finer internal marks. Many print editions, including the widely used 604-page Uthmani Mushaf standardised by Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Complex, begin each juz on a fresh page and hold each to roughly twenty pages, letting a reciter track a night's target by page count alone without consulting verse numbers.