Bismillah
assalam alykom
Sobhan Allah, actually such incidents help me think and see things from different angles. Matter of fact, if u look at the situation you will not help but saying, how will the Ayah saying:
"Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, but what their breasts conceal is far worse. Indeed We have made plain to you the Signs if you understand." (Quran 3: 118) apply? without them noticing they are confirming, affirming and approving that Quran is the true word of Allah. With their own act, with their own deed, with their own attitude they were forced to prove Quran as the true word of Allah. If such incidents didnt take place, someone would come up and say O your Allah Is saying that hatred appeared from the non believers mouths, we didnt see but kind and polite words towards Allah, Islam, mohamed and Quran. But here they come with the proof that Quran is true.
Also Allah Say:" But when they are alone,
they bite the tips of their fingers at you in rage.
Say: "Perish in your rage.
Certainly, Allah knows what is (hidden) in the breasts." (Quran 3: 119) Sobhan Allah how precise Allah's description to their status is. If such incidents prove anything, it proves how much they are raged, how much they envy him and us, how much their hearts are filled with hatered and wrath. Why do you think they feel this way/ because they are certain he is correct only that they are unable to join. I always get so amazed on how Allah Turns their plots against them, not only this but turn them into a tool to prove the authenticity of Quran.
On another side, how will we the currently living Muslims attain the honor of being Mohamed's (Salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam) beloved ones as he called us, if such situations didnt take place? Such situations actually steer and motivate our hidden love for him and takes it out in a practical form.
Didnt he tell his companions in a hadeeth (i cannt find it now I will look for it Insh aAllah or even my brothers and sisters can help): that there will be people who didnt see me or know me, and I didnt see them but one of them will pay whatever to meet me and sit with me, those are my beloved ones. The companions asked him is it us, he said no you are my companions they are my beloved ones.
What an honor, that we neither meet, see or sit with him and we love him that much, we cannt stand the bit of a bad word against him. But this attitude must be verified through action. How will this occur if we dont experience a situation in which we all jump at once defending our leader, teacher and Prophet Mohamed Ibn Abdullah? How will we be able to practice this, he is not here with us anymore to defend him during a war battle, or remove dirt off his back like Fatima did, or walk in front of him sometime and behind him other time in order to deter any possible threat like what Abu Bakr did during their trip to Medina. Therefore Allah Has to Create a different situation to allow us this honor of defending our beloved prophet and Messenger.