1.

"And if you should obey a man like yourselves, indeed, you would then be losers."

Islam affirms individuality. The verse is clear about self-reliance in spiritual and corporeal matters.


2.

"And thus we have placed within every city the greatest of its criminals to conspire therein. But they conspire not except against themselves, and they perceive [it] not."

The creator states that it is only normal that a society would have predatory types conspiring against others in search for power and material possessions. But they conspire only against themselves, and they even cannot perceive how they only harm themselves.