Are expressions such as "Ya Mama" (Oh Mama), "Ya Lahwi" (Oh My Misfortune/Oh My Goodness), or "Ya Habebti ya Zawjati" (Oh My Beloved, My Wife) considered invoking/seeking aid from other than Allah, and what is the ruling on the one who says them if they do not intend to invoke/seek aid or are ignorant that it is a form of invocation/seeking aid?

A person saying "O mama" and the like when in distress, or a husband saying to his wife "O my darling," is not considered seeking help from creation. Scholars of rhetoric have mentioned that the vocative (nidaa') can depart from its original meaning for other purposes understood from context, such as exclamation or annoyance. As for seeking help from other than Allah in matters that none but He can accomplish, it is shirk (definition) (associating partners with Allah), but the one who says it is not immediately judged as an infidel (kafir) solely on that basis, as declaring someone an infidel has its own conditions and regulations.