In other words it can be said that the city of Qom has a...

In other words it can be said that the city of Qom has a great role in providing many important scholars of Shia religion. During the Abbaside Caliphate, Qom was so well known for its fervor regarding Ahle Bayt (a.s) that its governor was always appointed from among its own people.

Qom was considered the base of Shias in Iran .Thus it is written about Qom that special instructions were made regarding its governance and in order to assure that there is no civil unrest and other problems the Shia law was applied in all the aspects of its administration. Because it was known that people could not bear the rule of a non-Shia. As we have mentioned before, since the time of the burial of Fatima Masuma in Qom , the importance and significance of this town is beyond description.

Rather, it can be said that her mausoleum is a candle around which the scholars and intellectuals have gathered since ages. In other words there is such a great conglomeration of religious students and other sincere followers of Ahle Bayt for her Ziarat that it would not be wrong to say that it is like a Ka’ba for Shias. The lady Masuma commands special status after Imam Reza (a.s) among the children of the seventh Imam.

Traditions before her birth and after her passing away inform us about the elevated position and the personality of this lady. Imam Reza (a.s) came to Iran on the behest of caliph Mamun in the year 200 A.H. and he stayed in Merv. In the year 201 A.H., that is after one year, Fatima Masuma left Medina and came to Iran . The great scholar Hasan ibn Muhammad Qummi writes in his History of Qom (378 A.H.) that when Fatima Masuma arrived in Sawwa she inquired about the distance to Qom from there.

The people informed her that it was 10 farsakhs. She told her attendant to take her to Qom . When news reached Qom that Masuma was coming there the people of Qom rushed out to welcome her. The senior-most citizen of Qom , Musa ibn Khazraj took hold of the reins of her camel and led it inside the city of Qom and in this way he took the honorable lady and lodged her in his own house. The Masuma stayed at his place for seventeen days and passed away there.

She was buried in Bablan, which was also a property of Musa ibn Khazraj. From that time onwards it is a center of pilgrimage for the Shias. For the Iranian country the city of Qom is a matter of pride or rather a testimony of its honorable position.