Is visiting places for the purpose of taking a lesson limited only to the places where previous nations were punished?
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The student: Is the lesson about the people who were destroyed? Is it about every people who was destroyed, or only the disbelievers who were not visited by punishment?
The Shaykh : No, it refers to those who were destroyed.
The student: The one who goes to Mada'in Saleh is in great danger, but if someone were to say: I am not affected by the Qur'an, but I am affected by seeing these previous peoples so that I may take the lesson and the warning?
The Shaykh : So he goes to take the lesson, and the person who goes to take the lesson is certainly going to be affected, but many people nowadays go to take a lesson from their own strength, not from Allah's taking of them.
The Shaykh : No, it refers to those who were destroyed.
The student: The one who goes to Mada'in Saleh is in great danger, but if someone were to say: I am not affected by the Qur'an, but I am affected by seeing these previous peoples so that I may take the lesson and the warning?
The Shaykh : So he goes to take the lesson, and the person who goes to take the lesson is certainly going to be affected, but many people nowadays go to take a lesson from their own strength, not from Allah's taking of them.