وَمَنْ يَعْصِ أَطْرَافَ الزُّجَاجِ فَإِنَّهُ ۞ يُطِيعُ الْعَوَالِيَ رُكِّبَتْ كُلَّ لَهْذَمِ
Whoever defies the first warnings represented by spear fittings will ultimately have to submit to long spears fitted with sharp points.
Al-zujāj refers to the fittings or lower spear parts in this explanation; al-ʿawālī are long spears and lahdham evokes a sharp piercing point. The contrast moves from an initial warning to the severe reality of armed conflict. Read this in the poem’s tribal-war setting, where failure to contain confrontation can escalate it.