«رَاحْ يِحِج جَاوِرْ»

The image is of a traveler who set out for a pilgrimage meant to be a round trip, then stayed on as a resident beside one of the holy sanctuaries, Mecca or Medina, instead of heading home. Here جاور means settling near the sanctuary, not merely becoming someone's neighbor.

Applied to everyday life, the saying targets a person who leaves to handle some task and never reappears. Its point is the failure to return, not any judgment of pilgrimage or devotion; it highlights the gap between the short absence expected and the open-ended disappearance that followed.

Use it for someone sent on an errand who stays away much longer than expected or never comes back. It may be a teasing remark about a lingering absence or a complaint about someone who has left others waiting.