Kuffar LIKED you, BEFRIENDED you but as soon as you start PRACTICING Islam, Kuffar and their associates will start DISLIKING you.

A very simple timeline of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in Makkah. ‎As soon as he started openly declaring Islām, is when the persecution from his people began. Such is the path of the Anbiyāʾ & their followers.