His talent was first recognised by Magan Thakur, prime minister of King Sanda Thudhamma of the Mrauk-U dynasty of Arakan.
His major work, Padmavati, based on Malik Muhammad Jayasi's Padmavat, was written under the patronage of Magan Thakur.
There is a famous poem Prince Saiful Malook and Badri Jamala of the mystic poet of Punjabi literature Mian Muhammad Bakhsh.
After the death of Magan Thakur, he received patronage from Saiyad Muhammad Musa, the army chief of King Shrichandra Sudharma.
In the eulogy of Saptapaykar, Alaol mentioned the arrival of Mughal prince Shah Shuja in Arakan.
He spent his last days in the court of Majlis Navaraj, another minister of Arakan, where he wrote his last work Sikandarnama (according to Ahmed Sharif) or Dara-Sikandar (according to Sukumar Sen), a translation of Eskander-nama by the Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi.