In another aspect: The intent behind the stripping of their garment is the stripping of their Luminous "Shirts" (Qums Nuraniyyatihima) from them. Their "private parts" that appeared to them are the Natural Human "Shirts" (Qums al-Bashariyya al-Tabi’iyya) which they wore after eating from the Tree. These [physical bodies] are what "grieved" them (tasu’uhuma)—meaning they caused them great harm through the heat, cold, pain, and ugly actions they endure. For Saw’ah, linguistically, means an obscenity, and it is said [to mean] an ugly trait or an ugly characteristic.

It was also said: The "garment" represents the lights of His—the Almighty’s—manifestation that used to be revealed to them, shine upon them, and encompass them. Its stripping from them is its absence after the Veiling (Al-Hujba). The "garment that conceals their private parts" represents the Human "Shirts", which are the Earthly Human Manifestations through which He veils them, beautifies them, forgives them, saves them, delivers them, and purifies them from their human shirts and clothes them with the Luminous "Shirts" (Al-Qumsan al-Nuraniyya),