Tawaaf Al Qudoom (The First Tawaaf)

1. Wudu is required for tawaaf according to the strongest opinion
2. Expose your right shoulder (only for tawaaf al qudoom)
3. Enter into the Haram through any gate and look for the green light to start
4. Enter with your right foot
5. Recite: „Bismillaah wa’l-salaatu wa’l-salaam ‚ala Rasool-Allaah. Allaahumma ighfir li dhunoobi waftah li abwaab rahmatika. A’oodhu Billaah il-‚Azeem wa bi wajhih il-kareem wa bi sultaanih il-‚qadeem min al-Shaytaan il-rajeem (In the name of Allaah, and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allaah. O Allaah, forgive me my sins and open to me the gates of Your mercy. I seek refuge with Allaah the Almighty and in His noble Countenance and His eternal power from the accursed Satan).“
6. Tawaaf replaces the 2 rakats of entering masjid (for other times entering, you can just pray 2 rakats)
7. Align yourself with the black stone, face it and make takbeer and signal towards it with your right hand if you cannot kiss it our touch it.
8. Proceed to make tawaaf with the kaaba on the left side counterclockwise.
9. The first 3 circuits of the first tawaaf should be done faster paced but impractical to try to run.
10. Keep shoulder exposed throughout all 7 circuits
11. The 7 circuits of tawaaf should not be interrupted. If you need to leave and come back,then start over unless you have a hardship (ie. urinary incontinence)
12. If you doubt how many circuits you’ve completed, then take the certain number
13. If prayer interrupts, you don’t need to start over
14. If you can touch the yamani corner which is the corner before the black stone, then do so with your right hand. Do not kiss it if you’re close to it or signal towards it if youre far away.
15. Between the yamani corner and black stone, say rabbana atina fil dunya hasana, wa fil akhirati hasana, wa qina athabal nar (Oh Allah grant us good in this life, and good in the hereafter, and protect us from hellfire.)
16.  Other than this dua, there are no other prescribed duas for tawaaf. Make dua as an individual in whatever language you want and do not join in group dua or follow some of the books which have innovated duas.
17.  After you complete your seventh circuit of tawaaf, go to maqam Ibrahim. Place it between yourself and the kaaba and you can go as far as you want away as long as you are somewhat aligned with it. Cover your shoulder then recite: „wat takhithoo min maqaamee ibraheema musalla“ (and take the station of Ibrahim as a place of prayer.) Then pray 2 rakats reciting silently with suratul kafiroon in the first rakaat and suratul ikhlaas in the second. If too crowded, you can pray these 2 rakaats anywhere in the haram.

Then proceed to drink zam zam and take a break if you want before Sa’i