The worldly and hereafter rulings concerning one who commits the crime of sodomy

Question:
(peace and blessings be upon him) Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: What is the ruling on the one who commits sodomy in this world and in the hereafter?

Answer:
His ruling in this world, if it is established against him by confession or by evidence, is that he is killed; he is killed without doubt. This is his ruling in this world regarding the hudud (fixed punishments) and regarding the religion: he becomes an open sinner, and his testimony is not accepted. He becomes one of the open sinners and a perpetrator of a major sin, one of the ugliest major sins after the greatest one. His testimony is not accepted until he repents to Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He). As for the hereafter, his affair is with Allah. Among the people of major sins in the hereafter, he is among those who commit major sins less than shirk (associating partners with Allah), unless he considers sodomy permissible. If he considers sodomy permissible, then he is a disbeliever, even if he did not commit sodomy. If he says that sodomy is lawful, then he is a disbeliever who has departed from the religion of Islam. He is given the opportunity to repent; if he repents, and if he is killed, he has departed. Yes.