This large edition of the color-coded Tajweed Qur'an (Mushaf at-Tajweed / مصحف التجويد) measures 7 x 10 inches with a 1.5 inch spine and weighs 2.16 lbs (980 g) across 666 full-color pages in a hardback binding. To be precise about the print itself: each Arabic line measures 1.2 cm in height from the top of the fathah to the bottom of the kasrah, and the Arabic text block inside the page border stands 20.2 cm tall. That is roughly double the line height of a standard pocket mushaf.
Those measurements matter if you are buying for a reader with weakening eyesight, a child beginning to read Arabic, or a teacher who needs the page legible from across a table. It is our best-selling tajweed mushaf and the size most often chosen for gifting. It stays comfortable on a lap, a desk, or a standard rihal.
Why Recite From a Tajweed Qur'an
Tajweed is not an optional refinement — it is the manner in which the Qur'an was revealed and the manner in which the Prophet ﷺ recited it. Yet most students learn the rules in a classroom and then lose them the moment they open a plain mushaf, because nothing on the page reminds them where a madd stretches, where a letter is nasalized, or where a qalqalah echoes. Errors settle into muscle memory and become progressively harder to correct.
A color-coded Tajweed Qur'an closes that gap. The rule is printed into the word itself, so you apply it as you read rather than recalling it afterwards. In practice this means three things: beginners and reverts can recite correctly from their first week instead of waiting years; parents and teachers can hear a child self-correct without interrupting every ayah; and long-time reciters catch the habits that no one ever pointed out to them. Because the coding is visual it works from any language background — Arabic, Urdu, English, Bengali, Somali, Turkish — and it keeps working during taraweeh, on the commute, or in halaqah, wherever the mushaf goes. Above all it frees the mind from tracking rules so attention can rest where it belongs, on the meaning of what Allah has said.
The Color-Coded Tajweed System
Dar Al Maarifah's editors grouped the letters phonologically and gave each group its own printed color:
- Red — letters requiring extended vocalization (madd)
- Green — nasalized letters (ghunnah, ikhfa, idgham)
- Dark blue — the emphatic ر (raa')
- Light blue — qalqalah, the echoing letters
- Gray — letters written but left unpronounced
Twenty-four tajweed rules are applied with precision this way, with the reader's attention left free for the meaning of the verse rather than the mechanics of the recitation.
About This Edition
This is the Regular Edition of a mushaf once offered only in Deluxe. It has plain single-color cover lettering, white rather than yellow-tinted page margins, and no topical index at the back. The Qur'anic text, tajweed coloring, paper and binding quality are unchanged from the Deluxe.
Specifications
- Size — 7 x 10 x 1.5 inches
- Arabic line height — 1.2 cm; text block height 20.2 cm
- Pages — 666, full color throughout
- Weight — 2.16 lbs
- Binding — Hardback
- Arabic text — Uthmani, Hafs 'an 'Asim
- Language — Arabic only (no translation)
- ISBN — 978-9933423056
- Publisher — Dar Al Maarifah, Damascus
- Item code — QT01
Available in 8 Sizes and Bindings
We stock the complete Dar Al Maarifah Tajweed Qur'an range, from a zippered pocket case to double mosque size. Same text, same color system, eight different footprints:
| Edition | Page Size | Binding | Weight | Best For |
|---|
| Zippercase 3.5x5 | 3.7 x 5.2 in | Zipper case | 0.44 lb | Pocket, taraweeh, nafl |
| Small | 4 x 5.5 in | Hardback | 0.74 lb | Travel, handbag |
| Flexi Cover | 5.5 x 8 in | Flexi | 1.30 lb | Lies flat, one-hand reading |
| Medium (Silver) | 5.8 x 7.8 in | Hardback | 1.55 lb | Everyday personal use |
| Zippercase 6x9 | 6 x 9 in | Zipper case | 1.38 lb | Protected carry, masjid bag |
| Large (this item) | 7 x 10 in | Hardback | 2.16 lb | Home reading, halaqah |
| XL (Mosque size) | 10 x 13.5 in | Hardback | 5.10 lb | Masjid stands, teaching |
| XXL (Double mosque) | 13.5 x 19.5 in | Hardback | 11.76 lb | Weak eyesight, imam's rihal |
Shipped worldwide from our Houston, Texas warehouse. Cover color may vary depending on current stock.