Tajweed Quran - Zippercase 3.5x5"

This is the smallest color-coded Tajweed Qur'an (Mushaf at-Tajweed / مصحف التجويد) in our range, measuring 3.7 x 5.2 inches with a 1 inch spine (9.5 x 13 x 2.5 cm) and weighing between 0.44 and 0.56 lbs depending on the cover — roughly the size and heft of a deck of cards. It is bound into a zippered protective case and holds the complete 604-page Uthmani text in the standard fifteen-line Madinah layout.

Customers buy this one for a specific reason: it can be held comfortably in one hand while praying. It is a common choice for taraweeh, and for those following the Maliki school who wish to read from the mushaf during sunnah and nafl prayers. The zip case means it survives being kept permanently in a coat pocket, a handbag, a glovebox or a travel bag. Available in black, brown, red and green.

A note on print size. Fitting a full mushaf into this footprint means small Arabic. The line count matches a full-size mushaf so the proportions are familiar, but the characters are correspondingly reduced. Readers with strong eyesight find it perfectly workable; readers who already use glasses for close work generally do not. Please view the sample pages before ordering, or consider the 4 x 5.5 inch hardback or the 6 x 9 inch zipper case listed below.

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 System

Each family of tajweed letters carries its own printed color, so the rule sits inside the word instead of in a marginal symbol:

• Red — extended vocalization (madd)
• Green — nasalization (ghunnah, ikhfa, idgham)
• Dark blue — emphatic ر (raa')
• Light blue — qalqalah, the echoing letters
• Gray — letters written but not pronounced

Twenty-four rules of tajweed become visible on the page rather than recalled from memory.

Specifications

• Size — 3.7 x 5.2 x 1 inches (9.5 x 13 x 2.5 cm)
• Pages — 604, fifteen-line Madinah layout, full color
• Weight — 0.44 to 0.56 lbs depending on cover
• Binding — Zipper case
• Cover colors — Black, brown, red, green
• Arabic text — Uthmani, Hafs 'an 'Asim
• Language — Arabic only (no translation)
• ISBN — 978-9933423186
• Publisher — Dar Al Maarifah, Damascus
• Item code — QT12

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:

Shipped worldwide from our Houston, Texas warehouse. Cover color may vary depending on current stock.