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Hajj

Levantine Arabic Dialects


English translation:

May [your] Hajj be accepted!

Response: May you be next! (M.S.)
Response: May you be next! (F.S.)
Response: May you be next! (P.)


English translation:

Congratulations on your Hajj! Response: May you be next! (F.S.)

Congratulations on your Hajj! Response: God willing you will be next! (M.S.)

North African Arabic Dialects


English translation:
May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven.
Response: And the same to you. (M.S.)

May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven.
Response: And the same to you. (F.S.)

May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven.
Response: And the same to you. (M.P.)

May your Hajj be accepted and sins forgiven.
Response: And the same to you. (F.P.)

English translation:
Congratulations on the safe [return] of the haj (the one returning from Hajj). (M.S.)
Response: May God grant you peace (M.S.)

Congratulations on the safe [return] of the haja (the one returning from Hajj). (F.S.)
Response: May God grant you peace (F.S.)

Congratulations on the safe [return] of the hujaj (the ones returning from Hajj). (P.)
Response: May God grant you peace (P.)

English translation:
Blessed Hajj. Response: Thank you, may you be next. (S.)
Blessed Hajj. Response: Thank you, may you be next. (P.)

English translation:
May your Hajj be accepted.
Response: From us from you. (M.S.)

May your Hajj be accepted.
Response: From us from you. (F.S.)

May your Hajj be accepted.
Response: From us from you. (P.)

Other Dialects


English translation:
May your Hajj be accepted!

English translation:
May Allah accept [the Hajj] from you!