Chapter: Entering Mecca

It is recommended to approach the city from its upper side¹ and to enter the Sacred Mosque through the Gate of Banū Shaybah. When he beholds the House, he raises his hands and recites the transmitted supplications. He then performs tawaf in the state of idtibaʿ (with the right shoulder uncovered). The pilgrim performing ʿumrah begins with the tawaf of ʿumrah, whereas the qarin (who combines ʿumrah with ḥajj) and the mufrid (who performs only ḥajj) start with the tawaf of arrival. He aligns his whole body with the Black Stone, touches it and kisses it; if that proves difficult, he kisses his hand, and if touching it itself is impossible he merely points toward it, pronouncing the reported words. He keeps the Kaʿbah on his left and circles it seven times; an outsider should jog briskly (ramal) during the first three circuits of this tawaf and walk the remaining four. Each time he passes he touches the Black Stone and the Yemeni Corner.

Whoever omits any element of the tawaf, fails to intend it or its rite², circumambulates on the shadhrwan or the wall of the Hijr, or performs it while naked or in a state of impurity³, his tawaf is invalid, then