The word · The Qur’an
حِزْب
Hizb
Half a juz; the Qur'an is divided into sixty hizbs for steady daily reading.
Also written · Hezb · Hizeb · Ahzab · Hizb Quran · Hizb al-Quran · half juz · Hizib
The meaning
What Hizb means in Islam
The word means a share or portion, in the sense of a person's allotted reading. Each hizb is split again into four quarters, marked in the margin of most mushafs. In parts of North and West Africa the daily recitation of a mosque is organised around the hizb rather than the juz.
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Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- JuzOne of the thirty roughly equal parts the Qur'an is divided into, for reading it over a month.جُزْء
- Rub' al-HizbA quarter of a hizb, shown by the small ornamental star in the margin of the mushaf.رُبْعُ الحِزْب
- ManzilOne of seven divisions of the Qur'an, used by those who complete a full reading each week.مَنْزِل
- Khatm al-Qur'anCompleting a full reading of the Qur'an from beginning to end.خَتْمُ القُرْآن
More from The Qur’an
- Al-Ahruf as-Sab'ahThe seven modes in which the Qur'an was revealed, an ease for the community; what a mode is stays disputed.الأَحْرُفُ السَّبْعَة
- Hafs an AsimThe reading found in most printed mushafs today, transmitted by Hafs from his teacher Asim of Kufa.حَفْصٌ عَنْ عاصِم
- IzharPronouncing a nun sakinah or tanwin clearly, with no nasal hum, before one of six throat letters.الإِظْهار
- Mujawwad and MurattalTwo recorded styles: mujawwad is slow and ornamented for listening, murattal is even and plain.المُجَوَّد وَالمُرَتَّل
- Rasm UthmaniThe spelling of the Uthmanic copies, kept in mushafs even where it differs from modern Arabic spelling.الرَّسْمُ العُثْمانِيّ
- TafsirExplanation of the Qur'an: what a verse means, why it came, and what it asks of you.التَّفْسير