What is the ruling on castrating homosexuals and effeminate men, and is it permissible to undergo castration for one who is unable to refrain from and be cured of perversion?

The answer is summarized in the following points:

- Castrating a human being is forbidden because it involves tormenting the self, disfigurement, and inflicting harm that could lead to death, in addition to negating masculinity, altering God's creation, being ungrateful for blessings, and choosing imperfection over perfection.

- Castration contradicts what the Lawgiver intended regarding increasing progeny.

- There is a prohibition against castration for those who wish to use it to preserve chastity, as in the hadith of Ibn Mas'ud: "We used to go on military expeditions with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and we had nothing. So we said, 'Should we not castrate ourselves?' He forbade us from that."

- The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, rejected 'Uthman ibn Maz'un's desire for celibacy, and if he had permitted him, they would have castrated themselves, as narrated by Al-Bukhari.

- The prohibition of castrating human beings is a prohibitive prohibition without any difference of opinion.