I don’t agree with this definition of a gift. Also if you are going to write an article about gifts you must also be more specific about how gifts from Allah s.w.t are a blessing and how these these are held in the heart. Materialistic gifts are useless but gifts such as children can be held in the hand and heart. It is very narrow minded to say, “A gift is not held in the heart. It is held in the hand.” A woman who has gone through the struggles and pain of pregnancy knows this. Bearing a child is not easy but it is gift, a gift from Allah s.w.t and held very closely to the heart regardless of the pain a woman undergoes. It is a bond between mother and child during those 9 months, and if the woman is strong in her deen, she knows with all her heart that this was the gift from Allah s.w.t. which she holds in heart AND in her hand after the baby’s birth.

You must also include how in Islam, it is a sin to reject a gift. A gift is an offering and one must always accept any offering given to us especially from Allah s.w.t.

A gift is a good thing in Islam and I believe you need to be more descriptive and elaborate about how worthless “materialistic” gifts are (like cars, clothes, money) and how meaningful gifts from Allah s.w.t are and how we should be grateful for all He blesses us with.

And with the beauty thing: beauty is also a gift from Allah s.w.t. and with that said, it is a even more better reason to preserve it and protect it under a hijaab.

Everything Allah s.w.t. gifts us with, we must protect it under His Gracious name, and toss the cars, the money, and the jewels, for those have no purpose.