He then said:

“Although I reside in the farthest reaches of the East, I have heard the people of East and West unanimously agree that the exalted Sultan—the learned, just warrior in Allah’s cause, the Sword of the World and the Faith, the Sultan of Islam and the Muslims, the foremost of the sultans of truth and certainty, ‘Abū Bakr ibn Ayyūb’—is the finest of kings and the most accomplished of sultans in manifesting excellence, demonstrating truthfulness, strengthening the upright religion, and supporting the straight path. May the signs of his banners continue to rise to the heights of heaven in strengthening the true religion and the sound doctrine, and may the radiant effects of his power and authority endure as morning and evening succeed one another. I therefore wished to offer him a splendid gift and a pleasing present, and so I presented him with this book, which I entitled ‘The Foundation of Sanctification,’ despite the remoteness of my abode and the distance between our lands.”

I say:

In presenting himself as coming from the East, he does something that is not sanctioned by the Book or the Sunnah, but rather runs entirely counter to their teaching to avoid that