The Ruling on Lying to a Fiancée About Buying a Television

Question:
Another man says: I hope you will inform me. If I want to propose to a woman and she conditions the marriage on me buying a television, is it permissible for me to lie to her and say I will buy it in order to win her approval, and then not buy it? I hope you will inform me.

Answer:
In any case, buying a television poses a great danger to the home and its people. Her condition of a television indicates a deficiency and weakness in her religion, and that she is not the upright one who monitors the danger of this television and warns against its evil. In such matters, the believer should be frank and not make a promise to her that he will break. Then the realities will reverse, and the home will become a hellfire afterwards, and it will be afflicted with loss and great harm if it goes out of her home and she demands it from him, so he will suffer a great loss. Indeed, their plotting is great, and their severity is severe.
Therefore, it is not befitting for a person of sound mind to entangle himself with this type of people. For whenever he promises her, it becomes like a condition, so they will hold him to it and strive for it. He should say to her: This should not be a condition, and I fear its harm for us all. But we will compensate you for it, if Allah wills, with something that brings good to us all and to our home. That is, he should return the matter with good words regarding what will comfort her and compensate her for the television with good religious tapes and beneficial recordings that benefit her instead of the television. He compensates her with something that benefits her and does not harm her, such as good, righteous tapes containing Qur'an, good hadiths, and beneficial things, recordings that benefit her. Yes.