26 H G Sarwar, Muhammad (PBUH) The Holy Prophet, Lahore, 1991. P 5.
Arabia Before Islam 51 and so the feuds went on. For forty or fifty years before Islam there had been about one hundred and thirty-two battles called ”Ayyam-ulArab” (the days of Arabs). Which I have already described. The evil of these fights was the destruction of the lives and wealth of the people. Altaf Hussain Hali described the situation in his Mussadas.
(5) Cruelty and Plunder The Arabs of pre-Islamic days, semi-barbarous as they were, cut of live flesh from the backs of camels and the tails of fat sheep which they roasted and enjoyed eating. They used to mutilate their captives as well. Women were sometimes tied to the tails of horses which were then made to gallop so that the poor victims were crushed to death. This was the pastime of the nobles. According to W.M. Watt, ”Robbery in his eyes is no crime, whether, it be a raid on an oasis or on a caravan.”27
