إِذاإِذا: when خرَّقتخرَّقت: you split apart قصباءةقصباءة: a reed-like quill الريشالريش: of the feathers خِلتهاخِلتها: you would take it to be
إِذا خرَّقت قصباءة الريش خِلتها
نِصالانِصالا: arrowheads ولكنَّولكنَّ: and yet النصالالنصال: the arrowheads حَديدُحَديدُ: iron
نِصالا ولكنَّ النصال حَديدُ
When you split a feather’s quill, you would take it
When the feathers’ quills are split open
For arrowheads—and yet arrowheads are iron.
Spears emerge, but the spears are of iron