سورة الأعراف

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): Zayd ibn Thabit said: A man asked the Commander of the Faithful (peace be upon him): "Is it permissible to have intercourse with women from behind (the anus)?" He said: "You have become base — may Allah debase you. Have you not heard this saying of Allah the Blessed and Exalted, where He says: إِنَّکُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَکُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِینَ [Indeed, you commit an indecency which no one in the worlds has done before you]."

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): إِنَّکُمْ تَأْتُونَ الْفاحِشَةَ [Indeed you commit an indecency] — indeed Iblis came to them in a beautiful form, wearing women's clothing. He came to a group of their young men and ordered them to have sexual intercourse with him. He knew that if he asked them to let him have intercourse with them, they would not accept. So he asked them to do this act with him. When they had intercourse with him, they found the act pleasurable. Then he left them and handed them over to one another.

Imam Ali (peace be upon him): In the book Uyun al-Akhbar, from Imam Rida (peace be upon him), in the report of the Syrian it is narrated that Amir al-Mu'minin (peace be upon him) was asked about the first one to commit the act of the people of Lut. He said: "It was Iblis, for he was able to do such a thing with himself."

Imam Rida (peace be upon him): In the Ilal of Ibn Sinan, from Imam Rida (peace be upon him), regarding the reason for the prohibition of a man's intercourse with a man and a woman with a woman, it is stated: The reason is that the nature of intercourse is between a woman and a man, and in intercourse of a man with a man and a woman with a woman, the cutting off of progeny, the ruin of order, and the destruction of the world come about.

Imam Sadiq (peace be upon him): Whoever is among our Shia, three things are not found among them ... and among them there is no one who is sodomized.

Imam Baqir (peace be upon him): Lut (peace be upon him) remained among his people for thirty years, and he lived among them but was not of them [and did not follow their conduct]. He called them to Allah, warned them against indecencies, and encouraged them to worship Allah, but they did not respond to him and did not obey him. They did not purify themselves from janabah (major ritual impurity) and were miserly and stingy with food, and because of their miserliness Allah afflicted them with a disease (liwat — sodomy) in their private parts for which there was no cure. They lived in a place that lay on the route of the caravans of Sham and Egypt, and travellers would stop there. But because of their miserliness they would disgrace the guest, so that the traveller who stopped there would have no expectation of food from them. Their miserliness caused this disease to come upon them, to the point that they sought [their lust] from men and paid a wage for it. Lut was a generous and noble man who honoured his guest whenever one came to him. His people forbade him from this act and said: "Do not honour any guest who comes to you, for if you do, we will dishonour your guest and disgrace him." [For this reason] whenever a guest came to Lut, he would conceal his presence for fear that his people would dishonour him.