Shaykh al-Islām, Shaykh Taqī al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah—may Allah have mercy on him—was asked:

About the practices introduced by ascetic Sufi mendicants and religious devotees: keeping company with young men; establishing bonds of brotherhood with women; holding dispute proceedings; lowering their heads before one another; consuming one another’s wealth without right; hoisting an offender up from beneath his feet and beating him unjustly; standing bareheaded and bent forward as though bowing in prayer; placing sandals on their heads; wearing woollen and patched garments; using prayer rugs and prayer beads; and consuming hashish. When a beardless youth comes to them, they require him to have one of them as his companion and demand his companionship. Is this permissible? Has it been transmitted from the Companions?

He replied:

Praise be to Allah. As for keeping company with beardless youths by singling one of them out for an exclusive attachment—as these people do—along with such practices as being alone with a handsome beardless youth, having him spend the night with a man, and the like, this is among the most heinous wrongs according to Muslims, Jews, Christians, and others.

The prohibition of sodomy is necessarily known in the religion of Islam and in the religions of all nations after the people of Lot. Thus Allah has made clear in His Book that no one in all the worlds committed it before the people of Lot. And Allah punished