Scripture Portions

Juz 30

Also Known As Juz Amma · Amma

The Quran

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Divinity Atlas. "Juz 30." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/scripture-portions/juz-30.

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Juz 30},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/scripture-portions/juz-30},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Juz Amma is the last of the thirty and the one most Muslims know by name and by heart, because it is where Quranic education begins. It gathers thirty-seven mostly short, early-Meccan surahs whose rhyme and brevity make them the first a child learns and the part of the mushaf a worshipper draws on most in daily prayer. It takes its name, Amma, from the opening words of An-Naba, its first surah, which asks about what the deniers question one another over and answers with the signs of creation and the day of decision. Within it fall the surahs recited more than any others: Al-Ikhlas, the terse statement of the divine oneness that tradition weighs as a third of the Quran; Al-Kafirun on separation from unbelief; Al-Kawthar, the shortest surah at three verses; and the historical vignettes of Al-Fil, the elephant, Quraysh, and Al-Masad. The juz, and with it the written text, closes on the two surahs of refuge, Al-Falaq and An-Nas, the muawwidhat, in which the reader seeks protection with the Lord of the daybreak and the Lord of mankind. That An-Nas ends the mushaf on seeking refuge, as Al-Fatiha opened it on praise and guidance, gives the whole book a deliberate bookend. Even so, the thirty-part division that produced this juz remains a measure of length: its boundary was set so that the last of thirty equal readings would begin at An-Naba, not because these surahs form one theme, though in practice they very nearly do.

Facts

Reckoning

Date Rule

By the customary schedule one juz is read each day to complete the Quran in a month 1

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In Ramadan the thirty parts are distributed across the nights 1

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Into which the Quran is divided for recitation rather than by theme 1

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One of the thirty ajza (juz') 1

Date Rule

This is juz 30, running from An-Naba 78:1 to An-Nas 114:6 1

Identity

Parent Work

The Quran 1

Position in the Canon

Juz 30 1

Canonical Reference

An-Naba 78:1 - An-Nas 114:6 1

Origins

Language

Classical Arabic 1

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A Thirtieth of the Recitation Cycle

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 An-Naba 78:1 through An-Nas 114:6. The final juz, Juz Amma, gathers the short, rhythmic Meccan surahs most Muslims learn first and recite in daily prayer. It runs from An-Naba ('The Tidings') through the Night of Decree (Al-Qadr), the declaration of God's oneness (Al-Ikhlas) and the two verses of refuge (Al-Falaq and An-Nas) that seal the Book.

Juz Amma, the final and shortest of the thirty divisions, gathers the Quran's most rhythmic and most memorised material, and its surahs are traditionally the first a Muslim child learns by heart, making this single juz, disproportionate to its modest share of the Quran's total length, the portion of the text most Muslims worldwide can recite from memory in full. Al-Ikhlas, its declaration of God's absolute oneness, is described in a widely transmitted hadith as equivalent in reward to reciting one third of the entire Quran, a tradition frequently cited to explain the surah's exceptionally frequent use in daily prayer despite its brevity.

Thirty-Seven Surahs Known as Amma

Juz 30, known as Juz Amma for the opening word of its first surah, is by a wide margin the most surah-dense division in the Quran: it contains thirty-seven complete surahs, An-Naba through An-Nas, far more than any other single juz, most of them only a handful of verses long. It opens exactly where Al-Mursalat ends and closes with the Quran's own final verse.

Its short, rhythmic surahs are the ones most Muslims learn first and recite most often within the five daily prayers, making Juz Amma the standard starting point in most children's Quran memorisation curricula worldwide, typically taught before the rest of the Quran rather than in the canonical reading order. In communities that pace the nightly tarawih prayers of Ramadan at one juz per night, this is customarily the final night's portion, and printed Mushafs typically mark its opening in the margin with a small medallion just as they do for each of the other twenty-nine. 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.

Cross-Tradition Connections