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How to organise a group khatm
A group khatm is the whole Quran read by a group: each person takes a portion (often a juz), reads it, then marks it as read. On Assabile, everything works through a link you share on WhatsApp or elsewhere: no app, no account, and each portion can be read or listened to right in the site’s Quran reader.
In six steps
- Create the khatm
Choose how to divide it: 30 juz (the most common), 60 hizbs for shorter portions, whole surahs, or as many portions as there are participants. Add a title if you like, and a deadline if the khatm has to finish before a particular day.
- Keep your organiser link
Once it is created, the page opens and your browser keeps the organiser key. Copy this organiser link and keep it to yourself: it lets you rename the khatm, extend it, free up a portion or close it from another phone.
- Invite people
The Share button sends the khatm link by WhatsApp, text message or email. Each person opens it, taps a free portion and adds a first name if they wish (or the name of a relative who will read without a phone).
- Everyone reads or listens to their portion
From their portion, participants open the text in the site’s Quran reader (with translation and tajweed if they want), in book mode page by page, or listen to it in the voice of their choice. At the end, “I’m done” takes them back to the khatm and the portion is marked as read.
- Follow progress without naming anyone
The grid shows free, reserved and read portions. “Copy the status for WhatsApp” gives you a message ready to paste: the progress and the list of free portions, with no names. A portion reserved for more than seven days can be taken over by someone else.
- Finish, or start again
Once every portion has been read, the khatm is complete. An “ongoing” khatm starts a new round by itself; otherwise, the organiser can start a new one with the same link.
Ready-to-send messages
Copy them and adapt them to your group.
Tips for seeing it through
- Choose portions that everyone can read within a few days: a juz takes about 30 to 45 minutes to read; for a large group, hizbs work better.
- Set a reasonable deadline rather than chasing each person: the date shows on the page, and portions left reserved for too long become available again.
- Suggest listening to those who find Arabic hard to read: they follow the text during the recitation. Let them know that listening is recorded separately.
- For a mosque or a school, choose an ongoing khatm: a new round opens by itself each time one is completed.
What scholars say
Everyone is rewarded for what they read, and a group khatm does not replace reading the Quran yourself (Permanent Committee for Fatwas; Diyanet). Scholars who encourage it set conditions: nobody should feel obliged, it should not be presented as a sunnah, and it should not be tied to fixed dates. Reading together in turns is an old practice considered good (an-Nawawi, at-Tibyan); “no people gather in one of the houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it together, without tranquillity descending upon them” (Muslim 2699).
Group khatm
Share a link: everyone picks a portion, reads or listens to it on Assabile, then ticks it off. No account needed.
Understanding the khatm
Short answers, with references for the texts quoted.
Does a group khatm count as a khatm for each person?
No: everyone is rewarded for what they read (Permanent Committee for Fatwas; Diyanet). Scholars who accept it set conditions: nobody is pressured, it is not presented as a sunnah, and it does not replace reading the Quran yourself.
Should the Quran be read on set days (3rd, 7th, 40th day)?
No authentic text sets a date. Several scholars consider reading on fixed days after a death an innovation; others allow it. This page imposes no date.
Does listening to the Quran count as reading?
Listening to the Quran is an act of worship (Surah al-A’raf, 7:204), but a khatm, as scholars define it, is a reading (Diyanet). So the plan records what you listen to separately; you can also read while listening, as the text follows the recitation.
Can you read on your phone without wudu?
Reciting from memory without wudu is permitted, without disagreement (Diyanet). As for a screen, some contemporary scholars (Salih al-Fawzan, Abd ar-Rahman al-Barrak) hold that it does not take the ruling of the mushaf: you may read from it without wudu. Reading with wudu remains preferable.
These pointers are only a guide. For a question of fiqh that concerns you, ask a person of knowledge.