Two Surahs Beside the Heart of the Quran

Juz 22 finishes Al-Ahzab's last forty-three verses, then carries two complete surahs, all fifty-four verses of Saba and all forty-five verses of Fatir, before opening Ya-Sin, a surah widely called the heart of the Quran in later devotional tradition, and carrying only its first twenty-seven of eighty-three verses. Ya-Sin itself is left unfinished at the juz boundary, continuing into the next portion.

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