An engagement is a promise to marry and that is why any of the fiancés can break off the engagement for a reason. As for the breaking off the engagement without a reason, it is not permissible from the legal point of view.
If one of the fiancés offers gifts to the other, what is the ruling on those gifts if the engagement is broken?
The view of the Syrian Personal Status Law regarding the return of gifts at the engagement period:
The Syrian Personal Status Law considered in Article 4 of it that: If things are presented as presents, then they take the rule of gift, meaning that only the existing ones are retrieved, and therefore the law took the opinion of the Hanafi school regarding presents.
But if what was presented is Trousseau Items, a woman has the choice between returning the same things or returning their value.
