الآية رقم (109) - وَدَّ كَثِيرٌ مِّنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ لَوْ يَرُدُّونَكُم مِّن بَعْدِ إِيمَانِكُمْ كُفَّاراً حَسَدًا مِّنْ عِندِ أَنفُسِهِم مِّن بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الْحَقُّ فَاعْفُواْ وَاصْفَحُواْ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَ اللّهُ بِأَمْرِهِ إِنَّ اللّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ

(109) - “Many of the People of the Book wish they could turn you back to disbelief after you have believed, out of envy from themselves [even] after the truth has become clear to them. So pardon and overlook until Allah delivers His command. Indeed, Allah is over all things competent.”

As for what pushed the Jews to wish that the Muslims renounce their faith and leave their religion, it was the envy that had grown in their own selves over what the Muslims had been commanded to do by their religion. As Allah U says,

مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ الْحَقُّ﴿“after the Truth has become clear to them”. They know that the Muslims are on the right religion as this is found in their Torah. However, they wanted them (the Muslims) to return to disbelief out of envy. Envy harms the one being envied by the command of Allah U, as it has been affirmed in the Book of Allah U, that envy has harm and has evil, as Allah U says:

وَمِنْ شَرِّ حَاسِدٍ إِذَا حَسَدَ﴿

“And from the evil of the envier when he envies” [Surah Al-Falaq: 5].