3. The prohibition of praying in a graveyard extends to every place that contains objects whose veneration could lead to worshipping them—such as praying beside statues, images, or inside churches.

4. Prayer is invalid in the ḥammām (public bathhouse), the place where people wash with hot water. The reason is the Prophetic report, “The ḥammām is Satan’s dwelling-place.” Because the body is exposed there and men and women may mix, it has become one of Satan’s haunts.

5. By analogy with the ḥammām, every location that resembles it in being a haunt of devils is likewise forbidden: gatherings of illicit entertainment—obscene films, licentious songs, unlawful games, parties of debauchery, and the like—all are devilish venues, alien to obedience to Allah and His worship.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said: “Prayer is disliked in any place that contains images, and it is even more deserving of dislike than prayer in a ḥammām. The dislike for the ḥammām stems either from the likelihood of impurity or from its being Satan’s house—and that is the correct view—whereas a place filled with images is a gateway to idolatry.”

Al-Nawawī said: “Praying in Satan’s abode is unanimously disliked. Such places include wine cellars, taverns, tax-collection points, and other venues of flagrant sin, as well as churches, monasteries, latrines, and the like.”