- An asylum or mental institution can symbolize frequent travel.
- It may represent asceticism, devotion to God, and reading the Holy Quran.
- It can indicate a stoppage of income or the end of a marriage.
- It may signify abandoning children or repenting from past mistakes.
- It can mean a return to religious faith and relief from worries.
- Sometimes, it represents diphtheria (a suffocating illness).
- It is also linked to a bathroom, as both are places where people remove clothing and may act in unusual ways.
- Some interpreters compare an asylum to a school, as patients in the past were forcibly taught reading, writing, and religious knowledge.