How Long Does It Take to Memorise Juz Amma?
Quick answer
Most children aged seven and up memorise Juz Amma in six months to a year with three classes a week and daily review. Consistent adults usually finish in three to six months. The juz contains 37 surahs and 564 verses across about 23 pages.
Six months to a year for most children
Most children aged seven and up memorise Juz Amma in six months to a year with three classes a week and a few minutes of daily review. Younger children take longer, and consistent adults often finish in three to six months. Speed matters less than keeping what you memorise, which is why review is built into every good plan.
What Juz Amma contains
Juz Amma is the thirtieth and final part of the Quran. It holds 37 surahs and 564 verses across about 23 pages of the Madinah Mushaf, running from Surah An-Naba to Surah An-Nas. Its surahs are short and are recited in prayer every day, which is why almost every child starts their hifz here, usually after the shortest surahs such as al-Fatiha, Al-Ikhlas, Al-Falaq and An-Nas.
Typical timelines
Learner | New portion each class | Time to finish (approximate) |
|---|---|---|
Child, 4 to 6 | One to three short lines, mostly by listening | 12 to 24 months |
Child, 7 to 12 | Three to five lines with daily review | 6 to 12 months |
Teen or adult | About half a page | 3 to 6 months |
Intensive daily plan | About one page a day | 1 to 2 months, plus consolidation |
Approximate ranges for one-to-one classes. Review time is included, because a juz that is memorised but not kept is not finished.
Why most children start from An-Nas
Most children memorise Juz Amma in reverse, starting with Surah An-Nas and working back toward Surah An-Naba. The surahs at the end are the shortest, so a child finishes complete surahs early, gains confidence quickly, and can use them in prayer straight away. By the time they reach the longer surahs near the start of the juz, they already have the habit and the stamina.
A review routine that keeps the juz
Memorising Juz Amma is half the job. Keeping it is the other half. A simple routine that works for most children: recite the surah being learned several times on the day it is learned, recite the last few surahs completed every day, and cycle through everything else in the juz across the week, so each surah is heard at least once every seven days. Our guide on how to review your hifz daily explains this layered approach in more detail. If review starts slipping, the answer is a smaller daily portion, not more pressure.
What decides your pace
Four things matter most. Frequency: short classes several times a week beat one long class. Review: the more of each session goes to keeping old surahs, the less is lost. Reading ability: a child who can read follows the longer surahs more easily, although short surahs can be memorised by listening. And age, which matters less than people expect: a consistent eight-year-old usually overtakes an inconsistent twelve-year-old. Understanding helps too, because a child who knows what a surah is about remembers its order more easily, as we explain in should a child understand or memorise first.
Juz Amma is one of a series of memorisation paths at Bilqalam: the short surahs first, then Juz Amma, then Juz Tabarak, Juz 28 and onward to the complete Quran. In the Juz Amma path, students memorise from An-Nas back toward An-Naba, and the teacher records the surah each student has reached, so progress through the juz is always clear. Parents receive a short report after every class and, at the end of each month, an automatic progress report showing which surahs were completed that month compared with where the child started.
Juz Amma is a realistic first goal: months, not years, for most children with steady classes and daily review. Start from the short surahs at the end, build up to the longer ones, keep every surah on a weekly review cycle, and measure progress by what your child can still recite, not only by how far they have reached.