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Musaafir is an Arvii word with the same general meaning but with slightly different connotations as the Arabic, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish word for a traveler. In this world, we are sometimes hosts. Sometimes we are travelers and pilgrims, and others are hosts.
At least some of us fit comfortably into the type, "musaaber", as some Sri Lankan Muslims pronounce the word.

Man today, perhaps more than ever before is a traveler across the geographical spaces of the earth - uprooted, exiled, and seemingly always on the go; born in one place, resident somewhere else, often not really certain where his end will be.

He traverses many inner spaces and worlds also, as he always has.
 
Maria Zambrano captures this reality of human experience:

"Man's search for his place in the universe consists of his passing through various zones, of journeying, in the sense of having to cross numerous thresholds; and this is possible only through a very profound transformation, one that must come from the very center of his being."
(1966. In G. E. von Grunebaum and Roger Caillois Ed. The dream and human societies).