Is there permissibility in visiting Mada'in Saleh based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: “So travel through the land and see how was the end of the deniers”?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding his saying , is there evidence for the permissibility of visiting what is called the Pyramids, Mada'in Saleh, and the like?

Answer:
Traveling there for this purpose is not permissible. However, if one passes by them on his way to or from somewhere else, and they happen to be on his route, and he looks at them with a view to reflection and taking a lesson, not with a view to admiration, that is fine. If he looks at them with reflection and taking a lesson, and fears Allah, asking how those who built these and had power over them were destroyed by Allah, and he takes a lesson from that, that is fine. But if he enters them and looks at them with admiration, saying, “This is from the civilization, the civilization of the ancients, and this is our forefathers, they had a civilization, they had a history, and they had this,” that is not permissible. Yes.