Juz 26 opens exactly where Al-Jathiya ends and carries five complete surahs in sequence, Al-Ahqaf, Muhammad, Al-Fath, Al-Hujurat and Qaf, thirty-five, thirty-eight, twenty-nine, eighteen and forty-five verses respectively, before opening Adh-Dhariyat and stopping exactly halfway through its sixty verses. Five distinct Medinan and Meccan surahs are represented whole in a single nightly portion.
In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the twenty-sixth 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.