Chopping the Qur’an

  

The Qur'an and The Moon

Divine Methodology for Monthly Recitation of the Qur'an 

 

CHAPTER THREE

Chopping the Qur’an

 

Qur’an, al-Hijr, 15:89-93

And by thy Lord-God, O Muhammad, we will question them all, concerning what they have done to this Qur’an!

Around the world today there is a universally-accepted system of division of the Qur’an into 30 Ajza, or 30 different parts, which sinfully breaks-up Surahs of the Qur’an into bit and pieces. It is even more alarming that no one even questions that sinful breaking-up of Suwar for daily recitation of the Qur’an. This writer does not even know who is responsible for this arbitrary division of the Qur’an in a manner which is other than that ordained by Allah Most High. 

 

It is now universally accepted that the first Juz of the Qur’an ends at Verse 141 or 142 of Surah al-Baqarah, and that the second Juz ends at Verse 253 of Surah al-Baqarah, etc. There can be very slight variations in these numbers since the numbering of the verses was not sent down with the angel. Rather, human beings did the numbering.

 

We present below a list of the 30 Ajza of the Qur’an that are now universally accepted, even though they violate the division of the Qur’an as ordained by Allah Most High.

 

Whoever created the existing division of the Qur’an into Ajza (parts) for daily recitation, decided the following:

1st Juz (part) ended at verse 141 of Surah al-Baqarah. This was his first chop. 

2nd Juz ended at Verse 252 of Surah al-Baqarah. [2^nd chop within the same Surah]. 

3rd Juz ended at verse 92 of Surah Ale ‘Imran. [3^rd chop].

4th Juz ended at verse 23 of Surah al-Nisa’. [4^th chop].

5th Juz ended at Verse 147 of Surah al-Nisa’. [2^nd chop Nisa’ and 5^th chop in all].

6th Juz ended at verse 81 of Surah al-Maidah. [6^th chop].   

7th Juz ended at verse 110 of Surah al-‘An’am. [7^th chop]. 

8th Juz ended at verse 87 of Surah al-‘Araf. [8^th chop]. 

9th Juz ended at verse 40 of Surah al-Anfal. [9^th chop].

10th Juz ended at verse 92 of Surah al-Taubah. [10^th chop].

11th Juz ended at verse 5 of Suratu Hud. [11^th chop].

12th Juz ended at verse 52 of Suratu Yusuf. [12^th chop].

13th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Suratu Ibrahim. [No chop] 

14th Juz also ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Nahl. [no chop]. 

15th Juz ended at verse 74 of Surah al-Kahf. [13^th chop].

16th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Suratu Ta Ha. [no chop]. 

17th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Hajj. [no chop]. 

18th Juz ended at verse 20 of Surah al-Furqan. [14^th chop].

19th Juz ended at verse 55 of Surah al-Naml. [15^th chop].

20th Juz ended at verse 45 of Surah al-‘Ankabut. [16^th chop].

21st Juz ended at verse 30 of Surah al-Ahzab. [17^th chop].

22nd Juz ended at verse 27 of Surah Yasin. [18^th chop].

23rd Juz ended at verse 31 of Suratu Rum. [19^th chop].

24th Juz ended at verse 46 of Surah al-Fussilat [20^th chop].

25th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Ahqaf. [no chop]. 

26th Juz ended at verse 30 of Surah al-Zariyat. [21^st chop].

27th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Hadid. [no chop]. 

28th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Tahrim. [no chop]. 

29th Juz ended, mercifully so, at the end of Surah al-Mursalat. [no chop]. 

 

There are no further chops in this sinful division of the blessed Qur'an. Our readers would be horrified to realize that the Qur’an was chopped 21 times in this arbitrary division of Ajza.

 

It would seem that the unknown person who so divided the Qur’an did so on the basis of considering the miraculous Qur’an to be similar to a length of cloth. He wanted to divide the Qur’an into 30 equal parts, and so he simply cut the cloth into 30 equal parts. This writer cannot explain how this sinful division of the Qur’an into bits and pieces was accepted by so many for so long.

 

The evidence presented above reveals a universal and a colossal failure on the part of Muslims when tested by Allah Most High with the longest Surah located at the very beginning of the Qur’an. As soon as they failed the test of Surah alBaqarah, they continued to fail with the rest of the Ajza for recitation of the Qur’an.

 

Our view is that it is to this sinful chopping/breaking-up of the Qur’an described above that Allah Most High has responded in the following verses of the Qur’an:

 

Qur’an, al-Hijr, 15:89-93

Say to them O Muhammad: I am a warner who warns you, and I do so in a manner which is clear and without ambiguity—warning you of Divine anger which descends on the Muqtasimin, who divide the Qur’an arbitrarily into bits and pieces. Allah Most High then took an oath: By thy Rab, O Muhammad, I will certainly hold them to account for what they have done (hence they will all have to answer to Me one day for having divided the Qur’an into bits and pieces).

 

May Allah forgive all those who now make Taubah, and who avoid breaking-up the Qur’an into bits and pieces; rather, they respect the division of the Qur’an into Suwar as ordained by Allah Most High, and they never break a Surah into parts while determining a Juz for daily recitation! Amin!

 

 

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 to be continued . . . .