From Tribal Genealogy to Divine Covenant: Qurʼanic Refigurations of Pagan-Arab Ideals Based on Biblical Models -- 4. Glimpses of Paradise in the World and Lost Aspects of the World in the Hereafter: ...

Pagan Arabs faced a much harder reality: convert or die. Muhammad extended personal hospitality to Christians on at least one occasion.

Pagan Arabs had observed it for centuries before Muhammad was born. Arab tribes had traditionally refrained from fighting one another at that time”. So, why did this change?