Ruling on describing the state before rectitude as "the pre-Islamic age of ignorance"

Question:
Sometimes we hear someone say to a person: "This is the pre-Islamic age of ignorance," or "the days of heedlessness," in whatever form... before he becomes upright...?

Answer:
There is nothing wrong with it. "Pre-Islamic age of ignorance" means his ignorance. "The days of my ignorance and my heedlessness": there is nothing wrong with it if he is sincere.
Q: Is the phrasing appropriate, meaning he says, for example, "This is the age of ignorance"...?
The Shaykh: His ignorance.
Q: I mean, is it the pre-Islamic age of ignorance that was before Islam?
The Shaykh: The pre-Islamic age of ignorance has passed. But the group that turned away from Islam, their place is the pre-Islamic age of ignorance as long as they have turned away from the religion; so their place is the place of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.
Q: I mean, may Allah reward you, it was said among the young people, they would say: "The days of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance"?
The Shaykh: His pre-Islamic age of ignorance. If he is in a place that is not the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, a place of Islam and a place of calling, it is not the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, but it is his ignorance.
As for if he is in a country where ignorance has appeared; then there is nothing wrong with it.