Is it permissible to use the expression "the corruption of the times," or is it part of the forbidden cursing of time?

The questioner : The prohibition against cursing time is that . The intended meaning of "the corruption of the times" is the people who are in the times. So I ask you, is this phrase, "the corruption of the times," acceptable or not?

The Shaykh : No, it is not acceptable, because the meaning is the same whether one curses time or the times, because the curse returns to the One who controls time and the times. Therefore, the poet said long ago:
"We blame our times, but the fault is in us, *** And our times have no fault but us. If the times spoke of us, they would rebuke us."

The questioner : They would rebuke us.

The Shaykh : They would rebuke us.

The questioner : ... .

The Shaykh: Of course.

The questioner : The times did not single them out.

The Shaykh : I mean, just as they say, the land is by its inhabitants, not by its walls.

The questioner : Yes, and in people's custom, they say it more than once, telling someone, "You..."

Another questioner : But a scholar understands that the one who curses the days, or the one who curses the hour, it is all the same thing. So there are people who specify the day they saw you, or the hour they saw you, or I don't know what.

The Shaykh : May Allah curse such and such.

The questioner : Yes...

Another questioner : ... .

The Shaykh : He gets angry at his companion and says to him, "May Allah curse the times in which I got to know you."

The questioner : It is this...

The Shaykh: Allah is the Greatest!