وَتُغَلِّبُ حُبَّ ثَوْبٍ تَشْتَهِيهِ عَلَى ثَوَابٍ تَشْتَرِيهِ
You allow love for a desired garment to outweigh a reward you could earn.
Thawb is a garment; thawāb is reward. Their near-match is sonic, not semantic. The verb tughallibu presents a hierarchy of priorities: desired clothing outweighs reward earned through action.
The parallel tashtahīhi / tashtarīhi balances wishing against acquiring. The statement is not a universal prohibition on clothing; it criticizes choosing short-term desire over a valued act when the two compete.
Application: identify the wordplay first, then determine whether the rebuke targets the object itself or the decision to prioritize it.