Assalamu aleikum,
Excellent topic this one,
We're all tempted to give birthday gifts and to have some other kind of celebrations for birthdays but there are some points I would like to point to all of us to think about it:
- Birthdays are all known for being for thousands of years a practice of unbelievers, such as Ancient Egyptians and Greeks, etc... (we don't have any single report about a prophet or believer that has ever been celebrating birthday);
- Most part of birthday traditions such as the candled cake, they have pagan origin, this one for example is related to the worshipping a godess from Ancient Greeks;
- Birthdays are occasions when people use to give special praise to a certain person in a way or another, and we should keep in mind that only Allah swt deserves that honours, not a human creature.
I hope my contribution has been useful,
May Allah swt bless you all, :tti_sister: