فَتُنْتِجْ لَكُمْ غِلْمَانَ أَشْأَمَ كُلَّهُمْ ۞ كَأَحْمَرِ عَادٍ ثُمَّ تُرْضِعْ فَتَفْطِمِ
Meaning: Then it will produce for you offspring all ominous and destructive, like the Red One of ʿĀd; then it will nurse them and wean them.
The she-camel metaphor continues: fa-tuntij lakum ghilmāna ashʾama kullahum portrays the new “children” as disastrous. These are not literal human babies, but new injuries and cycles of violence created by war. Ashʾam marks ill omen or extreme misfortune.
Ka-aḥmari ʿĀd invokes an archetypal figure of destruction. The commentary identifies the referent with the slayer of the she-camel of Thamūd, named Qudār ibn Sālif in the transmitted account. The wording of the poem and the commentator’s historical identification should be kept distinct.