They envy the believers and the Muslims for what Allah (swt) has given them of the bounty of the Message of Islam.
What is envy? All people whether Muslims or not believe in it, worry from it and afraid of being affected by it. Actually, it is a true fact not just religiously rather scientifically too.
The Prophet (saws) used to recite the Mu’auwidhat (Surat An-Nas and Surat Al- Falaq) and Surah Al-Ikhlas and then blow his breath over his body whenever went to sleep, as a protection of the envy. Indeed, envy is a desire for the blessing of others to be gone, however, this is a disease, because it is an objection to the Benefactor, Allah (swt).
Thereof, envy is the result of hatred, and its analysis from a scientific point of view is that when hatred rages in a person’s chest because of what another has of blessing, whether it is money, prestige, position, success or distinction, thus chemical reactions occur in his body, just like what happens because of sadness which is a spiritual matter, so that blood pressure and sugar in the body rise, as a result of electrons, or the like, are ejected from the eye of the envier, affecting the envied.
However, raging the envy in the envier chest leads to his death due to his hatred and anger. For that, the religious cure to avoid this disease is to say: “Mashaallah, la Quwata illa billah”, on the other hand, the cure of the envied is to recite the Mu’auwidhat (Surat An-Nas and Surat Al- Falaq) and Surah Al-Ikhlas.
As mentioned, the Jews envied the Muslims because the message of Islam came in the Arabs and revealed to Muhammad (saws) who is from the descendants of Ismaeel (PBUH).
(… فَقَدْ آتَيْنَا آلَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ …) (…But we had already given the family of Abraham…): This is a reply to the Jews. Who are the family of Abraham?
Abraham (Ibrahim) had two sons, Isaac (Ishaq) and Ismail, (PBUT), Isaac had Jacob (Yaaqob), and from Jacob came Joseph (Yousuf) and the Tribes (Al-Asbat), and from them came Solomon (Sulayman), David (Dawood), Moses (Mosa) and Jesus (Isa), (PBUT). Accordingly, all the Prophets came from the family of Abraham, the branch of Isaac, and it is called the Abrahamic religions. When the Prophet Muhammad (saws) came from the Arabs, that distressed the Jews. Therefore, when talking about the Arab nationalism and its connection with Islam and that the Holy Qur’an preserved the Arabic language and Arab nationalism, this is very clear throughout the Holy Quran.
(… الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ …) (…the Scripture and wisdom …): Allah (swt) gave the Psalms to David (Dawood), the Injeel to Jesus (Isa), and the Torah to Moses (Musa) (PBUT).
Wisdom is the words and deeds of the Prophets.
( وَآتَيْنَاهُم مُّلْكًا عَظِيمًا … ) (…and conferred upon them a great kingdom): As with Dawood and Sulayman (PBUT):
وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا دَاوُودَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ عِلْمًا ۖ وَقَالَا الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي فَضَّلَنَا عَلَىٰ كَثِيرٍ مِّنْ عِبَادِهِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
(And We had certainly given to David and Solomon knowledge, and they said, “Praise [is due] to Allah, who has favored us over many of His believing servants”.) (An-Naml: 15)
The great kingdom was conferred to those descendants of Ibrahim (PBUH), nevertheless, the Holy Quran is the greatest gift to all humanity till the day of judgement, conferred to the Prophet Muhammad (saws), who is from the descent of Ismail (PBUH).