The Criterion for Exaggeration in Religion

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner asks: What is the criterion regarding the issue of exaggeration? How does one know that an action is an act of exaggeration and not a religiously prescribed act? Some people describe the one who grows a beard and the one who raises his garment as having exaggerated.

Answer:
No, exaggeration is going beyond the required limit. Exaggeration is going beyond the prescribed limit; that is what exaggeration is. As for adhering to the prescribed command, that is the truth.
And the garment, the garment goes down to the ankle, to the ankle; this is the last limit, to the ankle, as the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said. In this, one follows the custom of the country. If they wear it down to the ankle, you wear it down to the ankle. You do not become famous among them with this fame if you differ from the people of the country. If you differ from them in something permissible, have you exaggerated in this? And if they wear it down to the middle of the shin, you wear it down to the middle of the shin, the custom of the country. Yes.