sentences: )Later in life he would be called upon to lecture on learned topics before the Sultan, sometimes reading history aloud in Arabic and explaining it in Turkish for the Sultan's benefit.The Sultan al-Ashraf Barsbāy is reported to have said "Islam is known only through him" and "law lā al-'ayntābi la-kāna fī islāmina shay'," "If not for al-'Ayntabi there would be something suspect in our Islam."