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Abdus Salam was a devout Muslim and a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, who saw his religion as integral to his scientific work. He once wrote: „The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.“

During his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Physics, Salam quoted the following verses from the Quran:

„Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary.“

He then proceeded to say: „This, in effect, is the faith of all physicists; the deeper we seek, the more is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement for our gaze.“