Excellence of Tawaf

“I once visited the virtuous servant of Allah to ask him a great many questions. When I saw him, his words impressed me a great deal. I requested him to allow me to hold his hand or his foot to kiss. He allowed me to hold his hand, I kissed his hand and at this time I remembered the words of the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, and my eyes flooded with tears. When he saw me bending my head down, he said that the Messenger of Allah, O Allah, grant compensation to Muhammad and his family worthy of their services to Your cause, has spoken of the following great facts: ‘Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, writes for each step seventy thousand good deeds for those who perform Tawaf around this House. If one performs it when the sun declines toward the west, without any covering on his head, barefoot, walking in small steps, casting one’s eyes down, touching the Black Stone each time one passes by without disappointing anyone, and does not discontinue speaking of Allah, the Most Majestic, the Most Glorious, He deletes seventy thousand of his sinful deeds, raises seventy thousand degrees, sets free seventy thousand slaves on his behalf, each costing ten thousand dirhams, accepts his intercession for seventy people of his family, and makes seventy thousand of his wishes to come true early, if He so wishes or later if He so wishes.’”