Many people, unfortunately, believe that money buys happiness and love. The more money you spend on them or give them the more they feel that you love them. Although It is true, that Islam encourages us to give gifts in order to get closer to people, but not to the extent that you may bribe the person or try to BUY their love and attention. It is somehow unethical. If you want to win someone over, it is by having a good heart and by caring for that person but not by giving them money and wait for them to treat you like a king or queen.

If that will be the case, that we let people buy our love by money, then what about those who have kind hearts yet don’t have much money? Would we NOT love them? Would we neglect them and go to those who have more money?

Life isn’t about money, but is about the value of things. Giving a gift to someone in order to show them how much you care or to let them know that you are sorry for a mistake that you have done isn’t wrong, Even if you give them money. I really pity those who try to buy people’s love and attention by throwing away their money, because once they are out of money those people whom they won their love by money may simply walk out of the door and let them love alone in misery.

My whole point is that give gifts or money to family members, friends or the poor in order to show them that you care but don’t do that just to win their love by the act or bribery.

May our intentions be for the Sake of Allah.

Ameen