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Eleven Surahs Known as Tabarak

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Eleven Surahs Known as Tabarak

Juz 29, traditionally called Juz Tabarak for the opening word of Al-Mulk, carries eleven complete surahs in unbroken sequence, Al-Mulk, Al-Qalam, Al-Haqqa, Al-Maarij, Nuh, Al-Jinn, Al-Muzzammil, Al-Muddaththir, Al-Qiyama, Al-Insan and Al-Mursalat, opening exactly where At-Tahrim ends and closing exactly on Al-Mursalat's final verse, both of its own boundaries again falling exactly on a surah's beginning and ending.

Its many short surahs make Juz Tabarak, alongside Juz Amma that follows it, a common early unit in Quran memorisation curricula for children and new students, and in communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the twenty-ninth night's portion. 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.

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