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Surah 39. Az-Zumar, Ayah 65

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وَلَقَدْ أُوحِىَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكَ لَئِنْ أَشْرَكْتَ لَيَحْبَطَنَّ عَمَلُكَ وَلَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلْخَـٰسِرِينَ
Walaqad oo h iya ilayka wail a alla th eena min qablika lain ashrakta laya h ba t anna AAamaluka walatakoonanna mina alkh a sireen a
And yet, it has already been revealed to thee [O man,]65 as well as to those who lived before thee, that if thou ever ascribe divine powers to aught but God, all thy works shall most certainly have been in vain: for [in the life to come] thou shalt most certainly be among the lost.
  - Mohammad Asad

I.e., "it has been conveyed to thee through the divine messages revealed to the prophets". The assumption of almost all the classical commentators that this passage is addressed to Muhammad does not make much sense in view of God's knowledge that neither he nor any of the prophets who came before him would ever commit the deadly sin (referred to in the sequence) of "ascribing divine powers to aught beside God". On the other hand, the above reminder becomes very cogent and relevant as soon as it is conceived as being addressed to man in general, irrespective of time and circumstance.

Tell them plainly because it has already been revealed to you as it was revealed to those before you that if you commit shirk, all your deeds will become fruitless and you will surely be among the losers."
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
It has already been revealed to you- and to those 'prophets' before you- that if you associate others 'with Allah', your deeds will certainly be void and you will truly be one of the losers.
  - Mustafa Khattab
And verily it hath been revealed unto thee as unto those before thee (saying): If thou ascribe a partner to Allah thy work will fail and thou indeed wilt be among the losers.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
But it has already been revealed to thee as it was to those before thee "If thou wert to join (gods with Allah) truly fruitless will be thy work (in life) and thou wilt surely be in the ranks of those who lose (all spiritual good)." 4338 4339
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

The Message of Unity, renewed in Islam, has been the Message of Allah since the world began.

Cf. v. 6. False worship means that we run after fruitless things, and the main purpose of our spiritual lives is lost.

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