What is the ruling on visiting the ruins of the people of Salih for the sake of taking a lesson?

Question:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on visiting the ruins of the people of Salih for the purpose of taking a lesson?

Answer:
As for traveling to it and making it one's destination, this is not well known and is not permissible. However, if a person passes by it while going to another place, and he only passes through it on his way, there is no harm in looking at it for the sake of taking a lesson, not for the sake of glorifying it or admiring their civilization, but rather for taking a lesson and comprehending it. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said when he passed by the dwellings of the people of Thamud: "Do not enter them they were struck by a calamity." So, the one who passes by it and looks at it for the sake of taking a lesson and being admonished, there is no harm in that, because there is a lesson in it and an admonition. As for the one who travels to it or enters it out of admiration for it, that is not permissible.