Round 9: Tossup 16

Practitioners of this ritual recite a prayer that states “here I am” four times. During this ritual, which begins on the eighth of the “best ten days of the year,” men wear two unhemmed white sheets as clothing. Practitioners of this ritual must shave their heads after hitting three walls with seven pebbles each. (15[1])Practitioners (15[1])of this ritual perform the sa’ii to imitate (*) Hagar’s discovery of the Zamzam well during Eid al-Adha. People performing this ritual make tawaaf by running seven counterclockwise laps around the Kaaba. The fifth pillar of Islam is, (10[1])for 10 points, what annual pilgrimage (10[1])to Mecca? ■END■ (10[1])

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