Haci Bayram Veli Hz. Mosque and Tomb

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The growth of the sect perturbed some local authorities; they shared their worries with the Ottoman Sultan Murad II, who called Hacı Bayram to Edirne (the capital of the Ottoman Empire at that time). The Sultan wanted to test the opinions, doctrine and the patriotism of the sect. At this time in Anatolia there were many independent Turkish clans with little unity among them.

Hacı Bayram took another scholar, his murid Akşemseddin (Aqq-Shamsūd-Dīn), with him to Edirne to meet the Sultan. Murad soon understood that the complaints against Bayram were merely rumours and Hacı Bayram and Akşemseddin (Aqq-Shamsūd-Dīn) stayed for a while in Edirne, lecturing and preaching to the court. He had more private consultations with the Sultan in which they discussed matters of the world, life and the future.

In particular the Sultan was concerned with the conquest of Constantinople, the Byzantine capital that the armies of Islam had struggled to conquer without success. The Sultan asked Bayram directly, "Who will conquer the city?" The reply came: "You will not. But this baby shall. You and I will not be alive at the time of that conquest. But my student Akşemseddin (Aqq-Shamsūd-Dīn) will be there." The baby was the Sultans son, the future Mehmed II, who would conquer the city (which later became known as Istanbul) in 1453 and receive the title Fatih (meaning the conqueror).

Hacı Bayram requested that his student Akşemseddin (Aqq-Shamsūd-Dīn) be the teacher of the baby Mehmed, and Sultan Murad agreed. Hacı Bayram made a few more trips to Edirne until he died in 1430 in Ankara, passing the leadership of his sect to Akşemseddin (Aqq-Shamsūd-Dīn). His tomb[2] and the mosque dedicated to him are in Ankara.