Is it permissible for me to address my mother-in-law as "Mama" to please her and to please my wife?
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There is no impediment to a man calling his wife "my mother," because the intention is to show respect, and this matter is broad. The prohibition was against a man attributing himself to someone other than his father. The wife's mother is not like the wife in ruling.
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