The ruling on using rest houses and praying in them

The Shaykh:
May Allah greet you and bless you.

The questioner:
This questioner, Honorable Shaykh, says in this question: The going to rest houses has become common, both in groups and as individuals. Is it permissible, Honorable Shaykh, for these people who go to these rest houses to pray in congregation or individually, or is the prayer obligatory in the mosque? Some of them are lax in their prayer in these rest houses. What is the ruling on one who prays at home without a valid excuse?

The Shaykh:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for what follows, rest houses are a new development in this age, and people have come to need to build rest houses where they can spend some time. There is nothing wrong with this. However, the issue lies in how the rest houses are used. If the rest houses are used only for rest, where a family goes out to relax, or where an invitation is held and a wedding feast is set up, and the rest house is more spacious than the house, then there is nothing wrong with this out of necessity. But using the rest house for amusement, play, wasting the prayer, letting oneself go, the mixing of women and men, and other such things, these are wrongs and are not permissible, neither in the rest house nor elsewhere. But rest houses are more severe in this regard because their owners claim that they are not under supervision in their rest house. That is, the owner of the rest house must fear Allah and not use it, or not allow it to be used, except for what is permissible.
Some people take rest houses for the purpose of renting them out. The lessor must stipulate to the lessee that he does not do in it anything that undermines the religion or undermines morals. He must regulate the use of the rest house by the lessee, because it is his responsibility and he is accountable for it before Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He.
So it is not far-fetched that rest houses may be exploited for suspicious advertisements, the promotion of ideas, the call to deviation in thought, and the call to rebel against the rulers. Callers to misguidance and callers to evil exploit them for seclusion with the young men of the Muslims and the sons of the Muslims, and they indoctrinate them with these ideas. So the one who establishes a rest house must be alert to this, and his rest house must not be a school for destruction or a school for misguided ideas. He must regulate it, because he is responsible for it.
As for praying in congregation in the rest house, there is a distinction here. If the rest house is near a mosque and they can hear the call to prayer, it is obligatory for them to pray in the mosque. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: . But if the rest house is far from the mosques and they cannot hear the call to prayer, there is nothing wrong with praying in congregation there. Yes.