| Ayatollah Makarem Al-Shirazi: It is desirable to perform circumambulation at those limits, although it is not compulsory. |
| Pilgrims use the courtyard to perform the ritual circumambulation of the Kaʿbah, known as the ṭawāf. |
| Each year in winter there is a four-day ritual circumambulation of the mountain by thousands of pilgrims who visit sites of myth and legend. |
| A circumambulation of the deity's altar is another physical mode of engagement with divine power. |
| He quietly lifts his pilgrim-staff, and begins a perambulation and circumambulation of the terraqueous globe. |
| The circumambulation also signifies the four stages of life, namely childhood, youth, middle age and old age. |
