Decide when you want to finish, and this works out what that means today: pages a day, how much falls after each prayer, and a dated schedule you can print. Based on the standard Madani mushaf of 604 pages. Everything is worked out in your browser and saved only on this device.
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Counting the start date as day one.
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A preset sets the length only. Your start date and starting point stay as they are.
Leave this at page 1 for a khatam from the beginning. If you are picking up part-way through, set where you are and only the remainder is planned.
Starting at page 1 of 604 — juz 1, surah Al-Faatiha. 604 pages left to read.
Pages give the most even days: every page of the mushaf holds roughly the same amount of text.
How many sittings will you split the day into?
Splitting the day is the oldest trick for keeping a khatam: a handful of pages after each fard prayer barely registers, and five of them finish the Quran in a month.
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A khatam is one complete reading of the Quran from Al-Faatiha to An-Naas. People abandon them for one reason above all others: the whole book is too large to hold in the mind at once, so the reading never starts, or starts and stops. A schedule removes the size. You are no longer reading the Quran; you are reading page 141 today.
The instruction that survived fourteen centuries — a juz a day — is a schedule, and the companions were given similar ones. When Abdullah ibn Amr asked to finish it faster, the Prophet ﷺ held him to seven days and said no one understands who reads it in fewer than three (Bukhari and Muslim). The point of a plan is not speed. It is a daily figure small enough that you keep it on the bad days too.
The standard Madani mushaf — the one printed in Madinah and copied worldwide — runs to 604 pages, divided into 30 juz of roughly twenty pages, holding 114 surahs and 6,236 ayahs. Every plan on this page is a single division: 604 pages shared out over the days you have.
Thirty days is the figure most people want, because that is Ramadan. 604 ÷ 30 = 20.1, so twenty pages a day carries the whole Quran in a month, with four of the thirty days needing twenty-one to close the gap exactly. That is where “a juz a day” comes from: one juz is about twenty pages, so a juz a day and a khatam a month are the same instruction said two ways.
Now split that across the five prayers. 20.1 pages ÷ 5 = about four pages after each fard prayer — two or three minutes of reading, five times over. Almost nobody can find twenty free pages in a day. Almost everybody can find four pages five times, because the sitting is already happening.
Twenty days needs 604 ÷ 20 = 30.2, so thirty-one pages a day, about six after each prayer — the pace of someone who wants to finish before the last ten nights and begin again. A year needs 604 ÷ 365 = 1.7 pages a day, which is two pages and a bookmark.
| Finish in | Pages a day | Juz a day | Pages after each prayer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 days | 86.3 | 4.3 | 17.3 |
| 10 days | 60.4 | 3 | 12.1 |
| 20 days | 30.2 | 1.5 | 6 |
| 30 days | 20.1 | 1 | 4 |
| 40 days | 15.1 | 0.75 | 3 |
| 60 days | 10.1 | 0.5 | 2 |
| 90 days | 6.7 | 0.33 | 1.3 |
| 180 days | 3.4 | 0.17 | 0.67 |
| One year | 1.7 | 0.08 | 0.33 |
Each figure is 604 pages divided by the number of days, and divided again by five for the last column. Round up on the days you can and the finish arrives early.
Aisha wants to finish the Quran in Ramadan. She starts on the first night, gives herself the full 30 days, plans by pages, and reads after each of the five prayers.
604 pages ÷ 30 days = 20.13 pages a day. The planner turns that into a real schedule: 26 days of 20 pages and 4 days of 21, which is exactly 604 — 4 × 21 = 84, 26 × 20 = 520, and 84 + 520 = 604. Split five ways, a 20-page day is 4 pages after each prayer; a 21-page day is 5, 4, 4, 4 and 4 — the extra page falls in the first sitting.
On the 12th she travels and reads nothing for two days, falling behind. Rather than write off the month she enters what she has read: 224 pages done, 380 left, 17 days remaining. 380 ÷ 17 = 22.4, so 23 pages a day — under five pages after each prayer — and the finish still lands on the 30th.
604
Pages in the standard Madani mushaf
30
Juz, of about twenty pages each
114
Surahs, from 3 ayahs to 286
6,236
Ayahs in total
Page numbers follow the 604-page Madani mushaf. Other printings paginate differently — the 15-line Indo-Pak mushaf among them — so if your copy ends on a different page, treat that number as your total and adjust the daily figure by the same proportion.
About twenty. The standard mushaf is 604 pages and 604 ÷ 30 = 20.1, so twenty pages a day gets you there, with four of the days needing twenty-one to land exactly on the last page. Because a juz is about twenty pages, this is the same as the familiar advice to read a juz a day. Split over the five daily prayers it comes to roughly four pages each time.
Read aloud at an unhurried pace, a page takes most people three to four minutes, which puts the whole mushaf between thirty and forty hours of recitation. Spread over a month that is about an hour a day; over a year it is under seven minutes a day. Reciting with tajweed and stopping to reflect takes longer, and there is no prize for speed — the Prophet ﷺ discouraged completing it in fewer than three days.
About twenty. 604 pages across 30 juz averages 20.1, and in the Madani mushaf the boundaries fall almost exactly every twenty pages: juz 1 opens on page 1, juz 2 on page 22, juz 15 on page 282, juz 30 on page 582. Each juz splits further into two hizb, so a half juz is about ten pages and a rub‘ al-hizb about two and a half.
Attach the reading to something already happening. The classical practice is a juz a day; the practical version is four pages after each of the five fard prayers, because you are already sitting there and nothing new has to be scheduled. Many people also lean on taraweeh, where an imam completing a juz a night carries much of the listening. If you want to be done before the last ten nights, plan twenty days at thirty-one pages a day and spend the final third on repetition and du‘a.
Recalculate — do not restart. Enter the pages you have actually read and the planner divides what is left by the days that remain, giving you a new daily figure and showing where the finish now falls. If the catch-up number is out of reach, move the finishing date instead and keep reading. A khatam finished a week late is still a khatam, and the habit is worth more than the deadline.