Perhaps...

Perhaps, the door of heaven apportioned for the city of Qum is the door for the strugglers ( bab al-mujahidin ) or the door of the excellent ones ( bab al-akhyar ) especially when in the hadith s the inhabitants of Qum have also been described as excellent Shi‘ah.

The City of Qum as a Proof for Others In every epoch, God chooses some persons as proofs for others, and since they are treading the path of God, they struggle in exalting the word of Allah ( kalimatullah ).[^8] God will assist them and keep the mischief of enemies away from them. During the period of occultation ( ghaybah ) of the Imam of the Age ( ‘atfs ), Qum and its people would be the proofs for other people.

Imam as-Sadiq ( ‘a ) said: “Difficulties and problems will be kept away from Qum and its people and a time will come when Qum and its people would be the proofs for all people. This will be…