Quran

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Learning to read the Quran, from the first letters through to reciting a full page with confidence. Most of what is here is written for households where no adult reads Arabic, so the checks work by ear rather than by reading.

How Many Pages Are in the Quran? Pages, Surahs, Verses and Words, Counted

How many pages are in the Quran: 604 pages, 114 surahs, 6,236 verses and 30 juz in the standard Madinah print.

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, surah 106: the 4 verses in Arabic, each with its transliteration and English meaning.

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, surah 112: the 4 verses in Arabic, each with its transliteration and English meaning.

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, surah 113: the 5 verses in Arabic, each with its transliteration and English meaning.

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, surah 114: the 6 verses in Arabic, each with its transliteration and English meaning.

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 […]

How Long Does It Take to Memorize the Quran? Do the Arithmetic First

Range chart of how many years memorizing the whole Quran takes at four levels of weekly commitment, from 1 to 2 years at 30 hours a week down to 12 to 16 years at 2 hours a week.

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

Overview graphic for a Ramadan Quran reading plan built for households where no adult reads Arabic: one fixed reading slot after Maghrib, a weekly repeat of recent pages, and a listening habit that needs no Arabic reading skill.

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 […]

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