Pilgrims perform a series of rituals including walking around the Kaaba, standing vigil on Mount Arafat and a ritual Stoning of the Devil.

朝圣者要完成一系列仪式，其中包括绕天房行走、在阿拉法特山上站立守夜和用石头砸死魔鬼的仪式。

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Another showed the sun setting on Mecca, with its Kaaba (the big black box focus of pilgrim worship), in real time.

另外一个频道是日落时分的麦加，实时播放着“卡巴”（朝圣的大黑屋子）的镜头。

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This made him extremely unpopular with his fellow townsmen because the pilgrimages to the Kaaba were the chief source of such prosperity as Mecca enjoyed.

这种做法使得他那个小城的市民对他极其反感，因为天房的朝圣者是麦加如此繁荣的主要来源。

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Now the couple is readying for Friday, when they travel to Mecca to circle the Kaaba, the most sacred site in Islam.

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Because many of its rooms directly overlook the Kaaba, the cubical building that houses the Black Stone, and towards which 1.5 billion Muslims turn in prayer, the complex can charge sizzling prices.

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After the Tawaf - walking around the Kaaba, the cube-like structure at the centre of the Great Mosque in Mecca - we will offer two rakaas or units of prayer, followed by drinking water from the holy Zam Zam spring.

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