(en) Pepe Escobar, « Knocking on heaven's door », Central Asia/Russia, Asia Times Online, (consulté le ) : « To give a measure of its importance, according to a famous hadith (saying) - enunciated with pleasure by the guardians of the shrine - we learn that ‘our sixth imam, Imam Sadeg, says that we have five definitive holy places that we respect very much. The first is Mecca, which belongs to God. The second is Medina, which belongs to the Holy Prophet Muhammad, the messenger of God. The third belongs to our first imam of Shia, Ali, which is in Najaf. The fourth belongs to our third imam, Hussein, in Kerbala. The last one belongs to the daughter of our seventh imam and sister of our eighth imam, who is called Fatemah, and will be buried in Qom. Pilgrims and those who visit her holy shrine, I promise to these men and women that God will open all the doors of Heaven to them.’ »
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Djameleddine Feliachi, Les préceptes fondamentaux de l'islam, The Bookedition.com, (lire en ligne), page 257.
(en) « Today's Top StoriesQom Province », www.indiasnews.com (consulté le ) : « Shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, sister of Imam Reza, one of Iran's holiest places, is in Qom. »
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(en) « Iraq blasts kill 143 on Shiite holy day », Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, (consulté le ) : « ‘After the blast, all you could see was death everywhere you looked,’ said Ahmed Kamil Ibrahim, a guard at the Kazimiya shrine in Baghdad, the third-holiest in Shiite Islam. »
(en) Aparisim Gosh, « An Eye For an Eye », Time Magazine, (consulté le ) : « That makes al-Askari one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest sites, exceeded in veneration only by the shrines of Najaf and Karbala. Even Samarra's Sunnis hold al-Askari in high esteem. The expression "to swear by the shrine" is routinely used by both communities. », Cover Story Note de l'éditeur : La citation se trouve sur la troisième page de l'article.
