The word · The Qur’an
رُكوع
Ruku' (Qur'an division)
A short thematic passage marked with a small ain in the margin, mostly in South Asian mushafs.
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The meaning
What Ruku' (Qur'an division) means in Islam
The word is the same one used for bowing in prayer, because an imam would recite one such passage and then bow. It groups a handful of verses that hang together, which makes it a natural unit for tarawih and for memorising. It is a later reading aid and is absent from most Arab printings.
Evidence · Editorial · Our own summary, drawn from the sources named
Read beside it
Words that sit beside it
- Ruku'The bowing in prayer, hands on the knees, back level, praising Allah's greatness.رُكوع
- JuzOne of the thirty roughly equal parts the Qur'an is divided into, for reading it over a month.جُزْء
- TarawihThe night prayer of Ramadan, prayed in congregation after Isha through the month.تَراويح
- HizbHalf a juz; the Qur'an is divided into sixty hizbs for steady daily reading.حِزْب
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
- MufassirA scholar who writes or teaches tafsir, trained in Arabic, the readings, the Sunnah and the occasions.المُفَسِّر
- Qira'atThe canonical ways of reciting the Qur'an, each carried by chain from the Prophet through a named reader.القِراءات
- TadwirThe middle speed of recitation, sitting between the slow tartil and the quick hadr.التَّدْوير