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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Is wearing clothing down to the middle of the shin considered clothing of fame?

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Question:
The questioner says that regarding isbal (letting a garment hang below the ankles) in the lower garment, some people say that if it reaches the middle of the shin, it is clothing of fame. What is the correctness of this statement?

Answer:
The Muslim’s clothing is what falls between the middle of the shin and the ankle; this is the Muslim’s clothing. A person follows the custom of the people of his land. If they wear their clothing down to the ankle, he wears it like them down to the ankle, whether in the lower garment, the thobe, the trousers, or the cloak. If they wear it down to the ankle, he is the one who differs from them, because they are upon the Sunnah. He does not separate from them, for that would make him famous among them, and they would mock him, because they are upon the Sunnah. As long as they have not let their garments hang below the ankle, they are upon the Sunnah, so he wears like them.
And if the people of the land wear their clothing down to the middle of the shin, he wears like them, because all of this, from the middle of the shin to the ankle, is Sunnah. A person follows the people of his land in their practice of the Sunnah and does not differ from them, for that would make him a target of mockery among them and a subject of fame among them. As for what falls below the ankle, that is the forbidden isbal.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل اللباس إلى نصف الساق من لباس الشهرة؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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