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    Question ID: 46256Country: India

    Title: Family relationship

    Question: Can Islam permit my son to call my sister or my wife’s sister mummy or my son to call my brother or my wife’s brother in law daddy?

    Answer ID: 46256

    Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

    (Fatwa: 1224/926/B=9/1434) Your son should call your sister ‘phuphi’ and your wife’s sister ‘khala’, he should not call them ‘mummy’. Likewise, he should call your brother ‘chacha’ (uncle) and your wife’s brother ‘mamu’. He should not call them ‘daddy’.

    Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

    Darul Ifta,

    Darul Uloom Deoband, India