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Most Juz' are named after the first word of the first verse of the Juz'. [5] Each Juz' is divided into two Hizb (lit. "two groups", plural: Aḥzāb). Therefore, there are 60 Hizbs in the Quran. Each Hizb is subdivided into four quarters called Maqraʼ (lit. "reading"), making eight quarters per Juz'. There are 240 Maqraʼs in the Quran.
English title(s) Number of verses (Number of Rukūʿs) Place of Revelation Egyptian Standard Chronological Order [2] [3] [4] Nöldeke's Chronological Order [2] Muqatta'at (isolated letters) [5] Title refers to Main theme(s) Juz' 1: Al-Fatihah: ٱلْفَاتِحَة al-Fātiḥah al-Ḥamd
The Quran also inspired Islamic arts and specifically the so-called Quranic arts of calligraphy and illumination. [16] The Quran is never decorated with figurative images, but many Qurans have been highly decorated with decorative patterns in the margins of the page, or between the lines or at the start of suras.
[2] [3] The Verse of Loan, the longest single verse in the Quran, is in this chapter. The sūrah encompasses a variety of topics and contains several commands for Muslims such as enjoining fasting on the believer during the month of Ramadan ; [ 4 ] forbidding interest or usury ( riba ); and several famous verses such as The Throne Verse , Al ...
The Quran mentions Iram in connection with ‘imad (pillars): Quran 89:6-14 [14] [15] 89:6 Did you not see how your Lord dealt with ʿĀd— 89:7 ˹the people˺ of Iram—with ˹their˺ great stature, 89:8 unmatched in any other land; 89:9 and Thamûd who carved ˹their homes into˺ the rocks in the ˹Stone˺ Valley;
The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by the British Indian Abdullah Yusuf Ali (1872–1953) during the British Raj.It has become among the most widely known English translations of the Qur'an, due in part to its prodigious use of footnotes, and its distribution and subsidization by Saudi Arabian beneficiaries during the late 20th century.
2016, English," Selected collections of Holy Quran in English: A companion for Young Muslims to understand the Divine Messages of Prophet Mohammad" by Syed N Asad, MD ISBN 978-1523877645; 2016, English, "The Quran: A Complete Revelation" by Sam Gerrans.
Sayyid Qutb an Egyptian author, educator and Islamic theorist in his magnum opus, Fi Zilal al-Quran (In the shade of the Qur'an), a 30-volume commentary on the Qur'an, summarizes the overview of surah Al-Ma'arij in these words: "We may say that this surah represents a round in the long, hard battle the Qur'an fights within the human soul, going ...