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Qur'an Facts Maths

Use these facts to answer the questions. Show your working!

114surahs (chapters) in the Qur'an
30juz (parts) in the Qur'an
2hizb in every juz
86surahs revealed in Makkah (most scholars' count)
  1. How many hizb are there in the whole Qur'an? 30 × 2 = ____________
  2. How many surahs were revealed in Madinah? 114 − 86 = ____________
  3. If you read 1 juz every day in Ramadan, how many days to finish the Qur'an? ____________
  4. If you read half a juz every day, how many days will it take? ____________
  5. Yusuf has read 12 juz. How many juz are left? ____________
  6. Maryam reads 3 juz a week. How many weeks to finish all 30? ____________
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Counting Ayahs

Make a bar chart: colour one square for each ayah in the surah.

The number of ayahs is in brackets.

Al-Fatihah (7)
Al-Kawthar (3)
Al-Ikhlas (4)
Al-Falaq (5)
An-Nas (6)
Al-Fil (5)
Quraysh (4)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Questions

  1. Which surah in the chart has the fewest ayahs? ____________
  2. Al-Ikhlas + Al-Falaq + An-Nas = ____________ ayahs
  3. We read Al-Fatihah in every rak'ah. There are 17 fard rak'ahs a day. 17 × 7 = ____________ ayahs of Al-Fatihah every day!
  4. The longest surah, Al-Baqarah, has 286 ayahs. How many more is that than Al-Fatihah? ____________
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Maths in Our Worship

Islam is full of numbers! Solve these.

  1. We pray 5 times a day. How many prayers in a week? 5 × 7 = ____________
  2. How many prayers in 30 days? ____________
  3. Zakah is 2.5%, which is 1 out of every 40. If Ahmed has saved £40 for a year, how much zakah does he give? £____________
  4. Aisha has saved £400. Her zakah is £____________
  5. Fajr is at 5:00 am and Maghrib is at 7:30 pm. How long is the fast? ____________ hours and ____________ minutes
  6. Hajj takes place from the 8th to the 13th of Dhul-Hijjah. How many days is that? ____________
  7. The Islamic year has about 354 days. The everyday calendar has 365. What is the difference? ____________ days
Because the Islamic year is about 11 days shorter, Ramadan comes about 11 days earlier every year!
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Shapes in Islamic Art

Muslim artists used geometry to make beautiful patterns.

  1. This star is made from two ____________ (shape).
  2. How many points does the star have? ____________
  3. How many lines of symmetry does it have? ____________

Colour the star with a symmetrical pattern, then design your own pattern below

Design your pattern here

Answer Key — Maths

Qur'an facts

  1. 60
  2. 28
  3. 30 days
  4. 60 days
  5. 18
  6. 10 weeks

Counting ayahs

  1. Al-Kawthar (3)
  2. 15
  3. 119
  4. 279

Worship

  1. 35
  2. 150
  3. £1
  4. £10
  5. 14 hours 30 minutes
  6. 6 days
  7. 11 days

Shapes

squares · 8 points · 8 lines of symmetry