Some people say: “O my mother!” When standing up or sitting down, this expression is NOT PERMISSIBLE, for it constitutes calling upon one who is absent or decea

It is therefore obligatory to refrain from using this phrase in order to safeguard pure tawḥīd and to avoid shirk and the means leading to it. [Majālis Adh-Dhikr – Fatāwā of the Permanent Committee, 26/361]