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29 surahs · 30 openings

The disjointed letters الحروف المقطعة

29 surahs open with letters recited one by one. See which letters open which surahs, and which spellings are shared.

By combination

14 combinations

In mushaf order

  1. الٓمٓ Al-Baqarah 2:1 · 3 letters
  2. الٓمٓ Ali 'Imran 3:1 · 3 letters
  3. الٓمٓصٓ Al-A'raf 7:1 · 4 letters
  4. الٓر Yunus 10:1 · 3 letters
  5. الٓر Hud 11:1 · 3 letters
  6. الٓر Yusuf 12:1 · 3 letters
  7. الٓمٓر Ar-Ra'd 13:1 · 4 letters
  8. الٓر Ibrahim 14:1 · 3 letters
  9. الٓر Al-Hijr 15:1 · 3 letters
  10. كٓهيعٓصٓ Maryam 19:1 · 5 letters
  11. طه Taha 20:1 · 2 letters
  12. طسٓمٓ Ash-Shu'ara 26:1 · 3 letters
  13. طسٓ An-Naml 27:1 · 2 letters
  14. طسٓمٓ Al-Qasas 28:1 · 3 letters
  15. الٓمٓ Al-'Ankabut 29:1 · 3 letters
  16. الٓمٓ Ar-Rum 30:1 · 3 letters
  17. الٓمٓ Luqman 31:1 · 3 letters
  18. الٓمٓ As-Sajdah 32:1 · 3 letters
  19. يسٓ Ya-Sin 36:1 · 2 letters
  20. صٓ Sad 38:1 · 1 letters
  21. حمٓ Ghafir 40:1 · 2 letters
  22. حمٓ Fussilat 41:1 · 2 letters
  23. حمٓ Ash-Shuraa 42:1 · 2 letters
  24. عٓسٓقٓ Ash-Shuraa 42:2 · 3 letters· second opening
  25. حمٓ Az-Zukhruf 43:1 · 2 letters
  26. حمٓ Ad-Dukhan 44:1 · 2 letters
  27. حمٓ Al-Jathiyah 45:1 · 2 letters
  28. حمٓ Al-Ahqaf 46:1 · 2 letters
  29. قٓ Qaf 50:1 · 1 letters
  30. نٓ Al-Qalam 68:1 · 1 letters

Letters used

14 letters

Each letter and the number of openings that spell it. A letter opens the page of the Arabic letters.

About the disjointed letters

Some surahs begin with a few Arabic letters recited by their names, not as a word. Each opening here is the word recorded in the corpus at the start of the surah.

Each row opens the first verse of the surah in the reader.

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