Is it permissible to send a khatm al-Quran as a present with a person who is going to hajj? Is a khatm regarded to have completed when everybody reads a juz?

Some women distribute juzes to different people and complete a khatm al-Quran; then, they give this khatm to a person who is going to hajj and say we send it as a present. Is this practice appropriate or is it a bid’ah? They say greetings are sent; so why should we not send a khatm? In short, is it permissible to form a khatm with different people reading different juzes? If it is permissible, can the khatm be sent as a present through a person?

Dear Brother / Sister,

If you want to send a khatm al-Quran to a person, you do not have to send it through a person. After the khatm is completed, it can be sent to the person or place by making an intention. In this way, the khatm reaches them.  

However, there is no religious drawback to giving a khatm to a person who is going to hajj and send it there as a present; it is not called a bid’ah. 

The thawab of a khatm al-Quran that is completed by several people reading different juzes is given equally to all of those who read it; a khatm like that is valid.

In the religion of Islam, we are advised to worship in congregation. The clearest evidence of it is the fact that prayers performed in congregation are given thawabs of twenty-seven fold compared to prayers performed individually. When three people form a congregation, each of them is given twenty-seven fold thawabs, not nine fold. For, luminous light and thawabs are not divided. As a matter of fact, when we send the thawab of the chapter of al-Fatiha or khatm al-Quran to one thousand people, the thawab is not divided into one thousand; each of them is given the same thawab. 

This reality is explained as follows through an example in “İhlâs Risalesi”, Risale-i Nur Collection:

"For example, there are four or five men. With the idea of sharing, one of them brings paraffin, another a wick, another the lamp, another the mantle, and the fifth matches; they assemble the lamp and light it. Each of them becomes the owner of a complete lamp. If each of those partners has a full-length mirror on a wall, he will be reflected in it together with the lamp and room, without deficiency or being split up.” (Lem’alar, Yirmi Birinci Lem'a (Flashes, Twenty-First Flash))

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