Juz 29

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-Mulk 67:1 through Al-Mursalat 77:50. Named Tabaraka after its opening word, this juz begins with Al-Mulk ('The Sovereignty'), traditionally recited each night as a protection, and gathers short Meccan surahs, Al-Qalam ('The Pen'), Al-Haqqa, Nuh ('Noah'), Al-Jinn, Al-Muzzammil and Al-Muddaththir among the earliest revelations, through Al-Mursalat.

Al-Mujadila, opening this run of Medinan surahs on community life, preserves one of the very few Quranic passages naming and responding directly to a specific woman's individual legal complaint, traditionally identified as Khawla bint Tha'laba, whose husband had pronounced a form of divorce-like oath against her (zihar); the surah's opening verses reform the practice's legal consequences in direct response. Al-Jumua's legislation of the Friday congregational prayer (62:9-10), read later in the juz, remains one of the most universally observed pieces of Quranic ritual law across the entire Muslim world regardless of school or region.

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.