Quran
How Many Pages Are in the Quran? Pages, Surahs, Verses and Words, Counted
The Quran has 604 pages in the standard Madinah print, with 15 lines on each page. It holds 114 surahs, 6,236 verses and 30 juz of about 20 pages each. Copies printed in the IndoPak script run longer or shorter, from 548 pages in the 16-line layout to around 850 in the 13-line one, but […]
Surah Quraish: Meaning, Transliteration and Audio for Kids
Surah Quraish (قريش, also spelled Quraysh) is the 106th surah of the Quran. It has four short verses, revealed in Makkah, about the Prophet’s own tribe: Allah kept the Quraysh safe beside the Kaaba, protected their trading caravans in winter and summer, fed them when they were hungry and made them safe when they were […]
Surah Al-Ikhlas: Meaning, Transliteration and Audio for Kids
Surah Al-Ikhlas (الإخلاص, “Sincerity”) is the 112th surah of the Quran. It has four short verses, and they say who Allah is: One, the One everyone needs while He needs no one, with no child and no parent, and with nothing like Him. The Prophet ﷺ said it is equal to a third of the […]
Surah Al-Falaq: Meaning, Transliteration and Audio for Kids
Surah Al-Falaq (الفلق, “The Daybreak”) is the 113th surah of the Quran. It has five short verses, and in them Allah tells us to seek refuge in the Lord of the daybreak from four kinds of harm: the evil in what He created, the dark of night, those who blow on knots in magic, and […]
Surah An-Nas: Meaning, Transliteration and Audio for Kids
Surah An-Nas (الناس, “Mankind”) is the 114th and last surah of the Quran. It has six short verses, and in them Allah tells us to seek refuge in Him, the Lord, King and God of all people, from the whisperer who puts bad thoughts into people’s hearts and then slips away. Muslims recite it every […]
When your child doesn’t want to learn Quran
A child who refuses Quran is either unwilling or unable, and the two need opposite responses. A five minute check that tells you which, without reading a word of Arabic.
Short Surahs to Memorize: What Your Child Actually Needs, and in What Order
The short surahs your child actually needs for salah, in a sensible order, with four checks a parent who does not read Arabic can run tonight.
How Long Does It Take to Memorize the Quran? Do the Arithmetic First
The trial class finishes, everyone says salaam, and the teacher says something warm and vague about consistency and two years, in shaa Allah. You nod. Then you close the laptop and realise you have no way at all to test that sentence. You do not read Arabic. You cannot tell a strong page from a […]
A Ramadan Quran Reading Plan for the House Where No One Reads Arabic
If you’ve already worked out that “read a juz a day” doesn’t mean much when the person doing the reading is a nine-year-old who’s still sounding out letters, or an adult who hasn’t opened a mus-haf since Sunday school, you’re not doing Ramadan wrong. You’ve just noticed something most Ramadan planners don’t account for: they’re […]
Your Child Reads the Quran Beautifully and Understands None of It
Your child recites fluently and understands none of it. That is the normal order, not a teaching failure. Here is when it starts to cost something, and a ten minute a week fix for a house with no Arabic in it.