A fatwa on IslamQA.info, dated 13 Safar 1427 (13 March 2006), addressing the Islamic ruling on homosexual acts and their punishment, citing classical jurists including Ibn al-Qayyim and Ibn Taymiyah. It states that scholars agreed the act is a grave sin and differed only on the method of execution to be carried out, and that the position it holds correct, transmitted from the earliest generation of the Prophet's companions, is that both parties to the act are to be killed, whether married or not. IslamQA.info was founded in 1996 by Sheikh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid and operates under his general supervision; it is independently described as a Salafist Islamic information website promoting the doctrine of Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jamaah as the Salafi movement reads it, and as the most visited Salafi website in the Arabic-speaking world.
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A dated doctrinal ruling published by IslamQA.info under the general supervision of its founder, Sheikh Muhammad Saalih al-Munajjid, an independently confirmed Salafi scholar; the site is independently described, separately from its own self-presentation, as one of the most visited Salafi doctrinal sources in the Arabic-speaking world, which is why this ruling is read as representative of Salafi legal scholarship rather than as one isolated opinion. NotesCited for Salafism's sexuality-position.
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PublisherIslamQA.info
Publication Year2006
URLhttps://islamqa.info/en/answers/38622/the-punishment-for-homosexuality
Source TypeOfficial doctrinal statement
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