He [Walid ibn ‘Abd Al-Malik] refused to have anything to do with this shameful and heinous practice, the hateful and disgraceful act which Allah torments those who practice it with many kinds of punishments, and has made lawful for them many kinds of exemplary punishments by which no one from former nations had been punished. This is the disgraceful act of homosexual activity [liwat] which afflicted a preponderance of kings, princes, merchants, common folk, writers, legal scholars, judges, and the like, except those of them who Allah safeguarded. Truly there is blight in homosexual activity that passes constraint or reckoning, and because of this the punishments for those who practice it are diverse; and because it is better that someone to whom it is done be killed, rather than him getting it in his rear. For this is great depravity from which nothing righteous can ever be expected, except if Allah so wills it; no good remains in someone who has it done to them. Moreover it behooves a man to safeguard his son while he is young and after he comes of age, and to keep him from associating with these accursed people, those who the Messenger of Allah (SAW) has cursed.