THE RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS OF QOM AND NADJAFThe seminaries of Nadjaf and Qom count as one of the oldest and important platforms of Shiite, and in popular terms, it can be said that there exists no competition between them and both are following the same goal. The Qom and Nadjaf seminaries are like two large universities which have a healthy exchange of scientific information and an exchange of professors and students. In fact, they are each completing the other, instead of being each other’s rivals. Just as the school of Nadjaf has understood the personality and the dignity of Imam Khomeini, so the scholars who went from Nadjaf to Qom would show off their scientific standing. We ask of the Almighty and Benevolent God to revive the Nadjaf School as soon as possible so that the scholars may, as before, engage freely in holding lessons and discussions.