Allah, His Messenger and His believing servants love, and the innovated, misguided acts of worship rooted in ignorance, concerning which Allah said:

“Or do they have partners who have ordained for them a religion which Allah has not authorized?”

This distinction holds even if some of the greatest devotees and ascetics have fallen into such practices. In the authentic hadith collections, Anas, may Allah be pleased with him, reported:

“The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, learned that some of his Companions had made certain statements. One said, ‘As for me, I shall fast without ever taking a day off.’ Another said, ‘As for me, I shall pray all night and never sleep.’ Another said, ‘As for me, I shall not marry women.’ Another said, ‘As for me, I shall not eat meat.’ The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, ‘But I fast on some days and not on others; I pray at night and also sleep; I marry women and eat meat. Whoever turns away from my Sunnah is not of me.’”

To turn away from something means neither loving nor desiring it. Rather, such a person loves and desires what opposes the prescribed way that Allah and His Messenger love, and the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, has disowned him. Examples include someone who always goes naked, remains perpetually silent, lives alone in the wilderness permanently, abstains entirely from bread and meat, or embraces lifelong monasticism—doing so as an act of worship and imagining that Allah and His Messenger love this rather than its opposite: dressing appropriately, speaking appropriately, eating appropriately, and the like.

Once this is understood, all the practices mentioned—bowing to the mountain in question or others like it, or to anyone there, or visiting it without intending jihad or some prescribed undertaking—are acts of ignorance and misguidance. Likewise, seeking blessings from the fruit brought from it is among