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So fear Allahu ta’ālā as far as you can - this abrogates His saying: Fear Allahu ta’ālā as He should be feared [Q. 3:102] - and listen, to what you have been enjoined to, listening disposed to accept, and obey and expend, in obedience [to Him]; that is better for your souls (khayran li-anfusikum is the predicate of an implied yakun, '[that] is', and the response to the imperative). And whoever is shielded from the avarice of his own soul, such are the successful, the winners.