Are the mentioned meanings - that the Hour will commence when civilization reaches its peak, or that contemporary civilization may advance then be struck by a catastrophe that sets it back, or that civilizations advance then collapse - correct, and is it valid to infer them from the verse: (Until, when the earth has taken on its adornment and is beautified and its people suppose that they have power over it, Our command comes to it by night or by day, and We make it as a harvest [field], as if it had not flourished yesterday. Thus do We elaborate the signs for a people who reflect)?
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The verse (Jonus/24) does not refer to the Hour (Day of Judgment) and its advent after civilization reaches its peak. Rather, it is a similitude God presented for the worldly life and its swift demise, likening it to vegetation that grows and flourishes, then becomes brittle straw scattered by the winds. The verse explicitly states that its context is a parable for the worldly life, its outcome, and its swift perishing, as explained by the exegetes.
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