Daud was an alumnus of the Kuala Kangsar Malay College in which its admission was restricted to children of the elite class, while his paternal grandfather was influential in the village as its main religious teacher and imam.

[7] He was the author of poetic collections Meditasi ("Meditation", 1972), Serah Terima ("Transfer of Affairs", 1973), Era (1975), Kaktus-Kaktus ("Cacti", 1976),[8] Ayn (1983, 1989), Pelabuhan Putih ("The White Harbour", 1989), Titir Zikir ("A Drop of Dhikr", 1995), and Ziarah Tanah Kudup (Pilgrimage to the Land of Flowers, 2006).

His book Mim (1999) [9] absorbed various creative motifs, including reflections on the poet's and his poetry's place and impressions of his trip to the Soviet Union a decade before in October 1989.

Russian literary critic and researcher Anna Pogadaeva comments on the style of Ahmad Kamal's writing, stating that: "His poems are musical, full of inner rhythm, he perfectly uses all the possibilities of the Malay language, extracting from it sometimes tender and sincere, sometimes ecstatic and explosive sounds, filling each line with movement and turning each verse into a living organism.

The combination of feelings and visions permeated with a passionate love for God is the inexhaustible source of the poet's creative inspiration: it is a fusion of sounding image and music, avant-gardism and traditional Sufi motifs, as well as a rhythmic series of folklore forms.