One shawt is one complete circuit around the Ka'bah. Seven ashwat means seven full circuits, not seven short stretches between arbitrary points.
For example, completing six circuits and only part of the seventh is not the same as completing all seven. Consequences of an incomplete tawaf are treated separately in the law of pilgrimage violations; this lesson is establishing the prescribed count.
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Book of Hajj: Farewell Tawaf, Muhassab and Departure from Makkah
One shawt is one complete circuit around the Ka'bah. Seven ashwat means seven full circuits, not seven short stretches between arbitrary points.
For example, completing six circuits and only part of the seventh is not the same as completing all seven. Consequences of an incomplete tawaf are treated separately in the law of pilgrimage violations; this lesson is establishing the prescribed count.