The ruling on visiting Mount Thur or Mount Nur for the purpose of sightseeing

Question:
The questioner says: I have learned from your eminence that the visits held in Makkah, such as to Mount Thur or Mount Nur or others, are not prescribed. If the intention is for sightseeing only, is this action permissible or not?

Answer:
If the intention is for sightseeing only, there is nothing wrong with it. However, it should not be done, even if it is for sightseeing, because people now visit them to seek blessing from them. If he visits it with the intention of sightseeing, he becomes a role model for others who will assume he visited it for the purpose of seeking blessing. He should not go there as long as it is visited for seeking blessing or for worship. It is not appropriate for him to go there, even if he intends sightseeing, so that people do not assume he went there and say, "So-and-so visited it; if there were anything in it, so-and-so would not have left it," and they would follow his example in this.
It should be avoided. There is nothing there for sightseeing. It is a mountain with a cave. What is the sightseeing? What do you see? It is like the other mountains, like the other mountains. It is a mountain with a cave. You have not seen a mountain with a cave; it is the same. There is nothing here.