The presence of the Qur'an in the midst of people's lives certainly has an integrated and complex purpose. It is certain that the teachings in it are not only limited to the teachings of halal-haram, reward-sin and other religious approaches that cause aridity in religion. In this case, Al-Qur'an is a direct instruction from Allah through the intermediary of Rasulullah SAW which if we study it will never run out of knowledge. In its journey, the Qur'an received responses from the public in various forms. Starting from the study of texts in the form of memorizing and interpreting verses to the study of community responses to the Qur'an, known as the Living Qur'an.
In connection with the various receptions of the Muslim community towards the existence of the Qur'an, this research will describe a phenomenon of the tradition of reading Manzil verses at the Tarbiyatul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School, Nganjuk, East Java. The focus of discussion in this study consists of two things. First, how is the practice of the tradition of reading the manzil verse at the Tarbiyatul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School. Second, how is the meaning of the congregation towards the tradition of reading the manzil verse. This research is a type of field research that is descriptive-analytical using a phenomenological approach. The data collection techniques that the authors do are through observation, interviews and documentation. While the data analysis that the author uses in this thesis is data reduction, data display and data verification.
The results of this study explain that the tradition is carried out every day. The manzil practice at every after Asr pray which is led directly by the caregiver and then followed by all students, it begins with reciting istig}far 3 times, then the creed, s}ola>wat and continued Tawa>s}ul Fa>tih}ah}. The are many meaning about this tradition, including; as a form of obedience to the caregivers of Islamic boarding schools, in order to be free from interference from supernatural beings both dzohir and inner, facilitate sustenance, be able to read the Qur'an smoothly, as well as one of the efforts to form a good personality responsible for the trust given.