A rukūʿ (, ) is a paragraph of the
Quran
The Quran, also Romanization, romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a Waḥy, revelation directly from God in Islam, God (''Allah, Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which ...
. There are either 558 or 540 rukus in the Quran, depending on the authority.
The term ''rukūʿ'' — roughly translated to "passage", "
pericope
In rhetoric, a pericope (; Greek , "a cutting-out") is a set of verses that forms one coherent unit or thought, suitable for public reading from a text, now usually of sacred scripture.
Description
The term can also be used as a way to identi ...
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stanza
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian ''stanza'', ; ) is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, but they are not required to have either. ...
" — is used to denote a group of thematically related
verses in the Quran. Longer chapters (''
surah
A ''surah'' (; ; ) is an Arabic word meaning 'chapter' in the Quran. There are 114 ''suwar'' in the Quran, each divided into ayah, verses (). The ''suwar'' are of unequal length; the shortest ''surah'' (al-Kawthar) has only three verses, while ...
'') in the Qur'an are usually divided into several ''rukūʿ''s, so that readers could identify when to make stop or pause, without breaking an ongoing topic in the Quranic text.
See also
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Ayah
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Juz'
A ''juzʼ'' (Arabic: ; : , ''ajzāʼ''; ) is one of thirty parts of varying lengths into which the Quran is divided. It is also known as parah ( Persian: ) in Iran and subsequently the Indian subcontinent. There are 30 ''ajzāʼ'' in the Quran, ...
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Ruku
Rukūʿ (, ) is the act of belt-low bowing in standardized prayers, where the backbone should be at rest.
In prayer, it refers to the bowing at the waist from standing ('' qiyām'') on the completion of recitation ('' qiraʾat'') of a por ...
(part of the Islamic act of worship)
References
Components of the Quran
Arabic words and phrases
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