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tap (of which tab is a variant): 'Heat, warmth; fever'. (Platts p.309)
tab se : 'From that time forward, since that time; thence, thenceforward'. (Platts p.308)
FWP:
As SRF explains, the real focus of the verse is tab se in its two excellently appropriate senses. For another verse in this ghazal that turns on tab , see
{15,5}.
The body-as-garment metaphor is in fact forced upon our attention, since otherwise the second line would be quite anticlimactic (because having the body burn is so much more significant than merely having a garment burn).