A group Qur'an khatma, juz by juz
Thirty juz' and a group of you: each person takes one and reads it, and the thirty are finished between you within days. Create the khatma here and share its link with your group — no sign-up, no app, no ads on the page.
Start a khatma
How it works
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Create the khatma
Give it a name your family or friends will recognise — "Family khatma", "Ramadan khatma" — and press create. No account, no e-mail, no phone number.
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Share the link
One link is created. Send it to a WhatsApp or Telegram group; anyone who opens it sees the available juz' straight away.
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Each person takes a juz
One tap reserves it, with a name or without, and it leaves the available list — so nothing is read twice while something else goes unread.
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Confirm when done
After reading they press "I finished reading" and the juz counts. If they get busy and the window passes, it returns to the group on its own.
What we were careful about
The group khatma is a matter scholars differ on. This tool is built on the form most contemporary muftis allow, and stays away from the sharper points of disagreement:
- No dedication to the dead. There is no field for a deceased person, because whether the reward of recitation reaches the dead is disputed between the schools. Supplication for the dead is agreed upon, so anyone who wishes may make it themselves.
- The counter says what it means. It reads “N juz' completed” and never tells anyone they finished the Qur'an. A reader who read one juz read one juz.
- No fixed time or count. The khatma is not tied to a particular night, nor to forty days, nor to a set number of repetitions believed to carry a special merit.
- Recitation with the tongue. We say so when each juz is taken: looking at the page without moving the tongue is not recitation.
- No obligation, no penalty. Anyone who cannot manage their juz returns it with one button. Nobody is named and shamed and nothing is counted against them.
- Names optional, no leaderboard. Share your name if you like, or stay “Participant”. We do not rank people by how many juz' they took.
- The closing supplication is each reader's own. We do not compose a whole-khatma supplication for the group, since a reader of one juz has not completed the Qur'an.
Further reading: Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah on completing the Qur'an as a group · IslamWeb on organised groups for completion (both in Arabic). This is a matter of scholarly judgement — your own country's house of fatwa is the place to ask.
Common questions
Is a group khatma with the juz' divided up permitted?
The reading itself is not disputed, and each reader is rewarded for what they read. As for organising the group and dividing the juz', Dar al-Ifta al-Misriyyah has ruled that completing the Qur'an as a group is permitted, treating it as cooperation in good rather than an invented act of worship. Others — the fatwa centre at IslamWeb among them — are more reserved about making it a standing habit, and note that someone who read a single juz has not truly completed the Qur'an. That is why the counter here reads “juz' completed” rather than claiming anyone finished the Qur'an. It is a matter of scholarly judgement; ask the house of fatwa in your own country.
Is there a khatma for a deceased person?
No. This is a plain group reading. There is no field for a deceased person and no dedication of reward, because whether the reward of recitation reaches the dead is disputed between the schools. Anyone who wants to pray for someone who has died should do so themselves — supplication is agreed to reach them.
Do I need an account?
No. The link itself is the invitation and the name is entirely optional; leave it empty and you appear as "Participant". We ask for no e-mail and no phone number, and store nothing about you beyond the name you type, if you type one.
What if someone takes a juz and never reads it?
Every juz has a window set by whoever created the khatma, from twelve hours to a full month, with two days as the default. If the window passes without confirmation, the juz returns to the available list for someone else. This is the point that matters most in practice: without it, one forgotten juz freezes the khatma for good.
Can two people take the same juz?
No. The juz goes to whoever taps it first; anyone who follows sees a message that someone was ahead of them, and the available juz' refresh at once.
How many juz' can I take?
As many as you like. Take one or several, and hand any of them back to the group whenever you want with the "Release" button if you find you cannot manage it.