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And announce, call out, among the people the [season for] Pilgrimage. Thus he cried out from [the top of] the mountain of Abū Qubays, 'O people, your Rabb has built a House and has made pilgrimage to it an obligation upon you, so respond to [the call of] your Rabb', turning his face to the right and to the left, to the east and to the west; and every one of those for whom the performance of the pilgrimage had been preordained [by Allahu ta’ālā] from among the loins of men and the wombs of women, responded to him [thus]: 'At Your service, our Rabb, [we are] at Your service' (labbayk a'llāhumma labbayk). The response to the command [clause] is [the following]: and they shall come to you on foot, walking (rijāl, plural of rājil, similar [in pattern] to qā'im, 'standing', and [its plural] qiyām) and, riding, on every lean camel, that is, [on] every emaciated camel (dāmir, [this term] may be used to refer to both male and female [camels]). They shall come, that is, the lean camels (by grammatical agreement with the [feminine verb] form) from every deep ravine, [from every] distant route,