«وَيُطْفِئُ حَرَّ تَبَلْبَالِي بِسِرْبَالٍ وَسِرْوَالِ»
And cool my burning distress with a tunic and trousers?
Yuṭfiʾu ḥarra tabalbālī treats mental distress as a heat that can be extinguished. Sirbāl / sirwāl name garments, turning emotional suffering into a concrete request for clothing.
The literal level concerns clothes; the figurative level concerns alleviating anxiety and exposure. A reading that portrays an actual fire or water would miss the interaction between need and imagery.
Extinguishing distress is metaphorical, not a fire-safety narrative.