The Making of Moses, Carried Whole

Juz 20 finishes An-Naml's last thirty-eight verses, then carries the whole of Al-Qasas, all eighty-eight verses recounting the upbringing and calling of Moses, before opening Al-Ankabut and carrying about two-thirds of its sixty-nine verses. As with several other juz in this stretch of the Quran, a single narrative surah sits entirely within one nightly recitation portion.

In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the twentieth 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.