This is the standard-size zippered color-coded Tajweed Qur'an (Mushaf at-Tajweed / مصحف التجويد), measuring 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22 cm) and weighing 1.38 lbs (626 g). The mushaf is bound into a leather-style case that zips fully closed around three edges.
It runs 604 pages in the standard fifteen-line Madinah layout, so the line count and page breaks match a conventional full-size mushaf — useful if you are memorizing and want page positions to stay consistent with what you learned from.
What the Zipper Case Is Actually For
A mushaf carried regularly takes damage in a predictable order: the corners first, then the spine, then the page edges. Most people stop carrying one within a year for exactly that reason.
Zipped shut, the book is a sealed object. It goes into a rucksack, a glovebox or a suitcase without a second thought, and it stays clean in a way an unprotected mushaf simply does not.
That is why this is the edition bought by students, travelers, and anyone who keeps a Qur'an in a car.
Full Size Rather Than Pocket
The distinction matters. This is a full 6 x 9 inch mushaf that happens to be protected, not a shrunken travel copy — the text is the same size you would recite from at home, and the standard page breaks are intact.
For a genuinely pocket-sized zippered edition, see the 3.5 x 5 inch version instead.
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 mushaf closes that gap: the rule is printed into the word itself, so it is applied at the moment of reciting rather than recalled afterward.
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 this way, leaving the reader's attention free for the meaning of the verse rather than the mechanics of the recitation.
Specifications
- Size — 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22 cm)
- Weight — 1.38 lbs (626 g)
- Pages — 604, full color throughout
- Layout — 15 lines, standard Madinah page breaks
- Binding — zippered leather-style case
- Arabic text — Uthmani, Hafs 'an 'Asim
- Item code — QT10