Al-Quran is divided into thirty equal divisions, which are called juz in Arabic.
There are 114 chapters, of varying length. The longest chapter is Al-Baqarah consisting of 286 verses and the shortest chapter is AlKawthar consisting of three verses only. The whole Holy Quran has 6,666 verses containing 336,233 letter.The chapters revealed before the migration of the Prophet to Madina are called Makkan, whereas those sent down after the migration are called Madinan.


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