My step mother has been doing a lot of hard work in looking after the family, she celebrates her birthday but this year they promised us that there will be no balloons or cake or anything, and my dad told me I need to come as it’s just a lunch or dinner with the fam and nothing celebrating about it

Ustadh AbdulAziz al-Haqqan

If the meal is held because of the birthday, it is still marking the birthday even without cake or balloons, and the scholars held birthday celebrations to be an innovation.