Reading from the author's text with commentary and collation of manuscripts: "Chapter: As for the spatial festivals, they are also divided, like the temporal ones, into three categories.

The reader: "Chapter: As for the spatial festivals, they are also divided, like the temporal ones, into three categories
The first is what has no specific status in the Shari'ah
The second is what has a specific status that does not necessitate intending it for worship
The third is what is prescribed for worship in, but is not to be made a festival. The three categories are supported by narrations, such as the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to the one who vowed to sacrifice at Buwanah

Is it an idol among the idols of the polytheists, or a festival among their festivals? He said, No. He said, Then fulfill your vow.

أبها وثن من أوثان المشركين أو عيد من أعيادهم قال لا قال فأوف بنذرك

and such as his saying (peace and blessings be upon him)

Do not take my grave as a festival

لا تتخذوا قبري عيدا

Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 5:1006

and such as 'Umar's prohibition of making the sites of the prophets into festivals, as we will mention, if Allah wills. These three categories are: The first is a place that has no virtue in the Shari'ah at all, nor anything in it that warrants its preference; rather, it is like other places, or even less so. Intending that place, or intending to gather there for prayer, supplication, dhikr, or anything else, is clear misguidance. Then, if it contains some of the remnants of the disbelievers, whether Jews, Christians, or others, it becomes even uglier and uglier, and it falls under this chapter and the previous chapter regarding imitating the disbelievers. These are types that cannot be fully enumerated, unlike time, which is limited"

The Shaykh : Correct, these cannot be fully enumerated. How many places are there where it is said, "This is where the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) stood," or "This is his place," and so on. This is common; it is found in the Hijaz, in Makkah and in al-Madinah, and indeed in places other than Makkah and al-Madinah. Similarly, sites of the prophets are found in Sham. If you were to investigate them, you would find that they have no basis whatsoever. They have no factual basis and no Shari'ah basis. A person I trust told me that he once prayed in the Umayyad Mosque, yes, in
The reader: "This type is uglier than the one before it, for this resembles the worship of idols, or is a means to it, or is a type of idol worship, since the worshippers of idols used to intend a specific spot for an idol there or something other than an idol, believing that it would bring them closer to Allah the Exalted. The great idols to which people used to make pilgrimages were three: al-Lat, al-'Uzza, and Manat, the third, the other. As Allah mentioned that in His Book where He says

⁽¹⁹⁾ So have you considered al-Lat and al-'Uzza? ⁽²⁰⁾ And Manat, the third - the other one? ⁽²¹⁾ Is the male for you and for Him the female? ⁽²²⁾ That, then, is an unjust division.

أفرأيتم اللات والعزى ومناة الثالثة الأخرى ألكم الذكر وله الأنثى تلك إذا قسمة ضيزى

[An-Najm 53:19-22]

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The Shaykh : The question here is for the purpose of belittling, because Allah mentioned the greatness in the beginning of Surat al-Najm and what is related to the verses, He said meaning, inform us about these al-Lat and al-'Uzza, what is their status and what is their condition? So it is for belittling. And He said Manat, the third, the other, because it was weaker than al-Lat and al-'Uzza among the Arabs. For this reason He said And His saying is because the polytheists assigned daughters to Allah and sons to themselves, as He the Exalted said meaning, unjust. Yes.
The reader: Each one

The Shaykh : One asks. Yes.