The ruling on wearing the thawb according to the customs of the people of the country

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, is the thawb now equivalent to the izar in the past? Because the young men make the thawb half-open, and the thawb lifts itself up, so it reaches the knee. If you say that this is the Sunnah, then...

Answer:
The Muslim wears what the people of his country wear, as long as the clothing of the people of his country does not contradict the Sunnah. If the people of the country wear down to the ankles, you wear like them and do not shorten the thawb above the ankles, because if you shorten the thawb above the ankles, the people of the country will look at you, and there will be questions and answers, and it will become a source of notoriety. So as long as the people of the country are in agreement and wear down to the ankles, he wears down to the ankles.
This is what is required, and do not contradict the people of the country, because this is a cause of problems. Recently, people have been involved in this, and their fathers have become subject to surveillance and questioning: why do they do such and such? And there are accusations that they belong to something. The person, praise be to Allah, thinks with the thought of Allah and remains silent regarding the contradictions and does good. But if the people of the country contradict the Sunnah and lower their garments below the ankles, it is not permissible to imitate them in sin. But down to the ankles, this is the Sunnah. Yes.