What is the ruling on visiting Mount Tur or Mount Nur with the intention of sightseeing only?

Question:
May Allah reward you. The questioner says: If a person goes to Mount Tur or Mount Nur, for example, with the intention of sightseeing only, not with the intention of worship, is this not prescribed or is it permissible?

Answer:
If he goes to Mount Nur or to any place with the intention of sightseeing only, there is no blame on him for that. But the intention of going to Mount Nur or elsewhere with the intention of worship, believing that there is reward and merit in it, that is what is forbidden. As for if he goes for the sake of sightseeing only and does not intend worship by it, there is no harm in that, but he wastes his time. It is better for him to sit in the Sacred Mosque and worship than for him to go here and there saying it is for sightseeing, when he is coming for worship, and the place is a place of worship and the time is a time of worship, so he should not let it slip and go here and there with the intention of sightseeing.