The ruling on one who commits the crime of the people of Lot

Question:
May Allah reward you, Your Eminence, father. The questioner asks: What is the ruling on a male homosexual in Islamic law?

Answer:
His ruling, if sodomy is established against him by confession or by evidence, is that he is executed. He is executed by the consensus of the Companions. He is executed as a fixed punishment (hadd), one of the hudud, and his punishment is execution, whether he is a virgin or not. The Companions executed male homosexuals, but they differed on the method of execution. Some burned him with fire, some threw him from a height, and some killed him with the sword. They agreed that he is executed in every case. As for their disagreement on the method of execution, that does not matter. The important thing is that he is executed if this is established against him by his confession or by fair evidence, in which case the hadd is carried out against him.