Manzil

For other uses of "Manzil", see Manzil (disambiguation).

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For the convenience of people who wish to read the Qur'an in a week the text may be divided into 7 portions, each portion is known as Manzil.^[1]

The following division to 7 equal portions is by Hamza Al-Zayyat (d.156/772):^[1]

Al-Fatihah (chapter 1) through An-Nisa' (chapter 4) consisting of 4 surahs.
Al-Ma'ida (chapter 5) through At-Tawba (chapter 9) consisting of 5 surahs.
Yunus (chapter 10) through An-Nahl (chapter 16) consisting of 7 surahs.
Al Isra' (chapter 17) through Al-Furqan (chapter 25) consisting of 9 surahs.
Ash-Shuara' (chapter 26) through Ya-Seen (chapter 36) consisting of 11 surahs.
As-Saaffat (chapter 37) through Al-Hujarat (chapter 49) consisting of 13 surahs.
Qaf (chapter 50) through An-Nass (chapter 114) consisting of 65 surahs.

References

1 2 Jaffer, Abbas (2009). An introduction to Qurʼanic sciences = ʻUlūm al-Qurʼan. ICAS Press. p. 16. ISBN 9781904063308.

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