My argument is that it assumes the ideal as absolute. While the theistic religious institutions have lost considerable respect, given the failure to fulfill their promises to the people and the lack of logical coherence for the intelligentsia, this conceptual conceit seems to remain foundational to Western thought, from mathematical platonism, to liberal democratic capitalism, as the “end of history.”

While I’m not an expert on the Koran, the parts you quote would seem to express an effort to assert certain cultural ideals, systems, rules and biases as universal and absolute, rather than expressions of necessary social adaptation to the reality in which these people find themselves. Their version of the Ten Commandments.

Given the Ancients had to deal with a reality that was every bit as biologically complex as our world, such tools of social order were necessary, but occasionally the old peels away and we have to grow a new system. Cycles and feedback.