A juz (plural ajza), also called a para in South Asia, is one of thirty roughly equal divisions of the written Quran. The division is made by length rather than by meaning, so a juz usually begins and ends in the middle of a surah; each is further split into two hizb and each hizb into quarters. Reciting one juz a night completes the whole Quran across a lunar month, a rhythm tied above all to Ramadan, when the entire text is recited in the nightly tarawih prayers. This portion spans Al-Maida 5:82 through Al-Anam 6:110. The close of Al-Maida recounts the disciples' request for a table set from heaven and Jesus' disavowal of being worshipped. Al-Anam ('The Cattle'), a Meccan surah on pure monotheism, follows with Abraham's reasoning from star to moon to sun toward the one Creator.
Al-Maida closes, in this juz, with the disciples' request for a table spread from heaven (5:112-115) and Jesus' own disavowal, put in his mouth by the text, of ever having told people to worship him and his mother as gods (5:116-117), verses classical commentary reads as a direct Quranic rebuttal of Trinitarian and Marian devotion as understood by its audience rather than an account of mainstream Christian doctrine. Al-Anam, a Meccan surah of sweeping theological argument that follows, is reported in early Islamic tradition to have been revealed essentially complete in a single occasion, an unusual claim for a surah of its length that later scholars have treated with some caution.