Ruling on Designating a Week for the Care of Mosques

Question:
The Shaykh said: Is it permissible to dedicate a week to the care of the mosque, and is it permissible for the mosque to be neglected?

Answer:
There is no doubt that this is not a good deed. Mosques are cared for throughout the entire year; the care for them is not limited to just one week. This is merely imitating other days, such as Tree Week, Cleanliness Week, or whatever else. This is not permissible. It is not permissible to designate a specific week for mosques. Mosques are cared for and cleaned throughout the year, and every day, praise be to Allah, not in a special week. Yes.
Also, this is imitating the disbelievers, because these days and weeks did not come except from the customs of the disbelievers. We did not know them before. People used to graze and plant throughout the year without any special week, whether for the child or the mother or anything else. All of these are customs of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah). Yes.