He is a youth recently come to man's estate. He wrote the following couplet:—

“The reward for pain which is not worthy of my asking
after it
Is a glance to ask for which I am unworthy.”

This couplet for some time raised a great stir (among lovers of poetry) on every side in Lāhor, and on this account Ḥakīm Abū-'l-Fatḥ Gīlānī* was loud in ‘Ubaidī's praises, and presented him to the emperor. When he was asked to write more poetry he did not continue a poem on the lines of this couplet, but wrote some pessimistic verses which obtained no recognition, and since then he has disappeared, like all traces of his poetry.