A Second Juz Held Entirely by One Surah

Like Juz 2, Juz 5 falls entirely within a single surah: its full span, 4:24 to 4:147, belongs to An-Nisa, which at one hundred and seventy-six verses is long enough to hold an entire juz inside its middle section alone, with substantial material from the same surah still carried in the neighbouring divisions on either side of it.

In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the fifth 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, since these evenly sized units make a consistent daily review schedule possible regardless of where a surah boundary falls. Printed Mushafs typically mark each juz's opening in the margin with a small medallion inscribed with its number, a page-level convention distinct from the finer hizb and quarter-hizb marks placed within the text itself to guide reciters mid-portion. Some Mushaf editions additionally shade or border the margin differently for each hizb, so a reciter can judge progress through the juz at a glance without counting verses.