What is the meaning of the statement: (He died the death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance)?

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The questioner : What is the meaning of the statement:

dies the death of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.

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The Shaykh : The pre-Islamic age of ignorance means: being upon other than Islam, because there is Islam and there is the pre-Islamic age of ignorance.

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