Quran and Ramadan: source posters

شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ الَّذِي أُنْزِلَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ

Opening words of Quran 2:185. Read the complete verse and translations on Quran.com.

The poster’s introduction reads:

Every language has its own linguistic heritage for how one blesses someone for Ramadan. The greeting “Ramadan Kareem” is rooted in Arabic and is the most commonly used. It means to have a blessed, generous Ramadan.

Language labels and phrases as shown in the poster:

• Persian: ماه رمضان مبارک
• English: Ramadan Mubarak
• Arabic: رمضان كريم
• Turkish: Ramazan ayınız Mübarek olsun
• Hindi: रमजान मुबारक
• Somali: Soon Wanaagsan
• Bengali: রমজান মোবারক
• Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Berpuasa
• Spanish: Feliz Ramadán
• Urdu: رمضان مبارک

Poster credit: AJ Labs / Al Jazeera. Related publisher page with greeting cards and audio.

Text from the poster:

Laylat al-Qadr, or the night of power, is when the first verses of the Quran were revealed to the Prophet Muhammad inside the Cave of Hira. While the exact date of Laylat al-Qadr is unspecified, it is believed to occur on one of the odd-numbered nights during the final 10 days of Ramadan.

Ramadan lasts either 29 or 30 days, depending on the sighting of the moon. Here is what the moon looks like on each night of the month.

The Cave of Hira is located in a mountain outside the city of Mecca.

The diagram labels days 1–30 and shows the moon waxing and waning. Stars mark nights 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29 with the label “Laylat al-Qadr”. These are illustrative phase images, not a local moon-sighting calendar or confirmation of a particular night.

Reference for seeking the night during the odd nights of the last ten: Sahih al-Bukhari 2017.

Poster heading: Ramadan marks the revelation of the Quran.

The Quran was first revealed during the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and the month of fasting and reflection.

The diagram is labeled “What a day in Ramadan comprises”. It shows night, day, sunrise and sunset, and names five daily prayers: Fajr, Duhur, Asr, Magrib and Isha (spellings as printed).

SUHUR

The predawn meal.

SAWM (FASTING)

The poster describes fasting from dawn to dusk for adults who are physically able, abstaining from eating, drinking, smoking and sexual relations to develop greater “taqwa”, or consciousness of God.

IFTAR

The evening meal that breaks the fast.

This is a schematic daily routine, not a local prayer timetable. Dawn and sunrise are distinct; use local prayer times for actual timings.

The poster explains that Ramadan starts 10 to 12 days earlier each year in the solar calendar because Hijri lunar months last 29 or 30 days. Its ring contains 33 start-date entries across 32 calendar years, including two entries for 2030.

The graphic highlights December 2031 as the shortest northern-hemisphere fasting season and June 2047 as the longest, with the seasons reversed in the southern hemisphere. These are broad seasonal illustrations; actual daylight and fasting arrangements depend on location.

The February 18, 2026 entry carries an asterisk referring to the poster’s moon-sighting note. All dates above are a transcription, not a recalculation or confirmation.

The poster describes the Quran as guidance for humanity, covering God’s oneness, moral behaviour, social conduct and prophetic stories. It presents the following pairs as word-count symmetries.

* The poster says these figures include derivatives, but does not specify the included Arabic forms. The other rows also lack a reproducible counting method.

These comparisons are the publisher’s claims, not a validated numerical pattern. The table does not establish which word forms were included or excluded.

The introduction says that, among the 99 names of God, 56 begin with “Al” or “The one” and are specifically mentioned in the Quran; it refers to hadith for other names. This is the poster’s wording, not a linguistic definition of the Arabic article or a verified classification. The 56 entries below retain its transliterations and English glosses, including the distinct labels Al-Qadeer and Al-Kadeer. No Arabic-word list or counting method is supplied.

The introduction states the Muslim belief that prophets, from Adam to Muhammad, were sent to preach God’s message. The chart says its rows follow their order of appearance. The table preserves that order and the original name pairings, without independently establishing the identifications.

The chart does not define how indirect references were assigned to chapters or verses. Those columns must not be read as exact name-occurrence counts. Its identities, counts and chronology are reproduced as source claims, not independently established findings.

The poster describes the Quran as Islam’s central religious text, believed by Muslims to have been revealed by God through Gabriel to Muhammad over 23 years and recited in prayer.

The 604-page figure is footnoted “The Al-Madina Al-Munawara Quran (Arabic Edition)”. Page counts depend on the edition: see Quran Foundation’s page-layout guide. The poster provides no counting convention for its word total; it should not be treated as a universal total.

The first revealed verse is labeled Al-’Alaq 1 and rendered “Read, in the Name of your Lord Who created…”; read the verse and translations. The timeline is labeled 23 years of revelation and divides chapters into 86 Meccan and 28 Medinan surahs. Its printed dates are 609 CE / 13 BH (Quran revealed), 622 CE / 1 AH (Hijra from Mecca to Medina), and 632 CE / 11 AH (Prophet’s death). These are transcribed source dates, not an independently reconciled chronology.

The manuscript photograph is captioned as the Sanaa Quran, described by the poster as one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts, dating to the seventh century. The graphic does not identify the pictured folio or provide a manuscript catalogue reference.