Some days after his conversion he wrote to Smyrna: "God has made me an Ishmaelite; He commanded, and it was done.
چند روز بعد از اسلام آوردن او به سمیرنا در نامه‌ای نوشت: «خدا مرا اشماعیلی کرد، او دستور داد و آن انجام شد.