Üftâde started his education with the encouragement of Muk'ad Hızır Dede, one of the Bayrami sheikhs he joined at a young age. He served him for about eight years until 918 (1512), when his sheikh died. He recited the call to prayer (azan) in the Bursa Grand Mosque and the Doğan Bey Masjid with his beautiful voice. He stopped calling the azan the day after he was warned in his dream, "You have fallen (üftâde) from your rank" because he accepted a salary of a few coins. After this incident, he made a living by making sericulture, buttons and copying books. At the same time, he continued his duties as an honorary imam and muezzin. He started preaching and teaching around the age of thirty-five. The public followed his sermons in Doğan Bey Masjid, Namazgah Mosque and other mosques with great interest. He was appointed as the orator of Emir Sultan Mosque between 1529 and 1536, while he was continuing his guidance activities in the mosque and tekke he had built in the Pınarbaşı Kuzgunluk neighborhood on the skirts of Mount Uludağ. He continued this duty, which Emir Sultan said he accepted with his spiritual sign, until 12 Jumad al-Awwal 988 (25 June 1580) when he passed away. His most famous caliph (sucessor), Aziz Mahmud Hüdâyî, joined him in the last years of his life in 984 (1576). His two sons, Mehmed and Mustafa, became sheikhs in his place in his dergah.