Is it permissible to lie about receiving a free scholarship to avoid family problems and debts, knowing that revealing the truth might lead to the scholarship's cancellation?
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Lying is fundamentally forbidden, unless it is for repelling a definite harm that cannot be repelled except by it, or for reconciling people, while it is obligatory to use equivocation and indirect speech as much as possible.
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