She calls her mother ‘O my aunt'

12-2-2009 | IslamWeb

Question:

Assalamo alaykom i'm a muslim girl from morocco, and my mother has given me to my aunt to take wing, and now i call my aunt my mother and my real mother i call her my aunt, and i want to know wat say our relegion in this case and wat i must do, thank a lot for your response, I have written in English because I can not read Arabic on my pc. thank you mutch. wa salato wa salam 3ala sayidina mohammad wa alihi wa sahbih ajma3in jazakom allaho khayran incha allah.

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

 

If you call your aunt ‘O my mother’ as a way of respecting her, then this is permissible. However, you should not call your mother ‘O my aunt’ as this may be considered as degrading her status, and this may lead you to not fulfill your obligations of being kind and dutiful to her as your mother; so you should be careful.

For more benefit, please refer to Fataawa 90201 and 92093.

Allaah Knows best.