We say welcome and open our arms to those who come to these lands. World travellers, our gate and soul are open. Come and visit us! Come and travel in the lands of Oguz Han, Gorkut Ata, Seljuk Han, Alp Arslan, Melikşah, Soltan Sanjar, Görogly and Magtymguli.

(28)

You find sincere concerns and pleas of Magtymguly, 
who travelled all through our land, the mountains and valleys, keeping long vigils during the late hours of the night and the early hours of the mornings praying for the salvation of all people.

(78)

The soul of our father Magtymguly said:

Souls and hearts beat together,

The army marches, soil and stone dissolve.

If the food is prepared and served at one table,

The future of Türkmen is bright and prosperous.

(148)

Today, we have reached the unity, the integrity and the collaboration that our Father Magtymguly desired.

(153)

When I considered my situation, I understood that I was not an orphan! How can someone be an orphan if he has a father like Oguz Han, a teacher like Gorkut Ata, an elder brother like Görogly, an advisor like Magtymguly?

(156)

As our great thinker Magtymguly Pyragy once said, “Look at your future, do not forget your past, utter polite speech, restrain your anger. If you are able to speak, please say pleasant things; the public has suffered much from bad things.”

(159)

The most beautiful buildings should be established in our hearts and souls, rather than in our cities and villages. A certain amount of understanding is needed to see them. As our Father Magtymguly said, it is necessary to acquire wisdom to see them.

(160)

The directions of Görogly Beg have remained in the memory of the people as the way of Görogly Beg and the directions of the father Magtymguly have remained in the memory of the people as the way of Magtymguly.

(164)

Gorkut Ata, Oguz Han, Görogly and Magtymguly have transmitted many pieces of advice and good counsel to us about considering the Türkmen way sacred and the unity and integrity of the Türkmen nation. If you think of that advice and counsel, then your heart will be filled with love of your nation and pride in your nation.

(165)

Now this Türkmen tale has become a reality in the Türkmen territory. Remember that Magtymguly the Great made great endeavours to give unity and integrity to the Türkmens in the eighteenth century. No matter how he tried he could not make others heed his words because there was nobody able to lead the Türkmens. For the leader of one tribe to unite with another, one of the two leaders would have to accept second place, but there was no Han humble enough to bear to take second place.

(169)

Fighting for freedom is right. The jewels of Türkmen literature, “The Book of Gorkut Ata”, “Görogly”, Legends of Döwletýar, “The Epic of Yusup-Ahmet”, the writings of Ýunus Emre, Garacaoglan, Burhanetdin of Sivas, Baýram Han, Abdyrrahym Han, Şabendi, Andalyb, Magrupy, Magtymguly, Seýdi, Zelili, Mollanepes, Kemine, Mätäji, are works of art which all show the patriotism, courage, manliness, heroism of the Türkmen nation. 

(188-189)

Magtymguly says, “Man should get to know the world before he is forty years old.” Hakayıls perceive the world early, including the past and present, with a certain divinely granted perception.

(190-191)

Independent and Permanently Neutral Republic of Türkmenistan!

With my whole heart, I desire your development and progress and devote all my life to you. You must be exalted, the great Türkmen State.

For we founded you on this sacred Türkmen land.

Our ancestor, Magtymguly, keeping you in his dreams, wrote:

Know that what I built,

Is the peg of this world.

Forever it will stay independent,

This is the edifice of the Türkmen.  

It is we who have realized his dreams.

(250)

The desert with Hydyr, which Magtymguly certifies so, they said.

(272)

My ancestor’s sincere wish,

Which Pyragy passed away without having seen

We made it the Independent State

May my Türkmen country be safe and secure

May all our routes be proper and lawful

(286)

The fourth age of the Türkmen spirit is between the 17th and 20th centuries. This period was the weakest in terms of cleverness and skill. Action was replaced by idleness and waste, resoluteness was replaced by spending time doing nothing. The Türkmen started praising the achievements of the past and regretting his deficiencies. The historical creativity of the nation’s spirit ceased to exist. Having discarded the historical burden, the Türkmen made efforts to maintain his national characteristics. Innumerable and complex historical events divided the nation into various groups and tribes. The sincere leaders of these divided groups made painstaking efforts to give unity to the nation’s spirit. The Türkmens needed occasion and a peaceful life to pass their historical experience through the sieve of the mind, and to set future goals. So the Türkmen remained aloof from the foreign world and became engaged with himself. Magtymguly Pyragy is the spiritual leader of this period.

(293)

Our great thinker, Magtymguly, is undoubtedly a great figure in the East. We should look to Magtymguly as a proper example at every step we take. Would it be proper for us to follow Magtymguly at this age in exactly the way he did, in that he adopted the sufi way, waking at dawn and cry and pray with all the plants, trees and creation? We are different from those people who adopted the sufi way.

(306)

As Magtymguly says “There is a period of transition from one era to another.” In this period, he perseveres and expresses regrets by saying: two poems again-

You ploughed the earth, you did indeed,

And you reaped benefits thereafter.

You’ve reached forty years of age.

Mature, you’ve become a man of wisdom.

Mind grows to completion when one’s forty

So holds it for the mankind

Adama öz ömrüni rowan etmek üçin iki hili güýç-kuwwat berilýär. Ömrüniň birinji ýarymynda — jahyllyk döwründe ol ähli güýç-kuwwatyny dünýä bilen gatnaşyk etmäge — maşgala gurmaga, rozugärini, günemasyny üpjün etmek üçin tälim öwrenmäge, il-güne hyzmat etmäge sarp edýär. Şeýdip, ol şu durmuşda özüni ykrar edýär. Emma onuň paýhasy artyp, ömür hakyndaky pikirlere ulaşdygyça, adamyň diňe bir şu wagt hem giňişlik bile çäklendirilen dünýä üçin ýaradylmandygyna göz ýetirip başlaýar. Oňa pynhan hakykatlar açylýar, bu Magtymgulynyň ömrüniň bir döwürden başga döwre geçýän aralygydyr. Bu döwürde ol jäht edip, toba berilýär.

Sürdüň, dünýäni sürdüň,
Ahyr wepasyn gördüň.  
Kyrkyňa gadam urduň  
Kämil sen, huşa ýetdiň.  
Kyrkda akyl jem bolar  
Adamzadyň başynda.

Jahyllykda eden işler geň görner  
Kyrkdan aşyp, aýyl bolsa adamzat.   

Kyrkyňda toba eýläp, bir mürşide gol biýr sen.  

And the things done in youth seem strange to man

After he passes forty and becomes mature in mind.

Then repent for them and follow a spiritual guide.

(307)

Magtymguly says the following on Allah’s creation of Jesus Christ:

“He is the one that came into being without a father.”

(322)

The religious figure said in reply: “If you do not believe in Allah, go bow to your parents’ graves.” Faith has its origins in belief in the parents. Magtymguly also expressed something in the same vein, “Forgive my sins, for the sake of my parents.” Maintain respect for your parents. Allah will forgive you for the sake of your parents, if not for your own sakes.

(325)

I am the only one to be blamed. I fed my children on what is impermissible and unlawful. Magtymguly was right to say, “You will give your account of your proper deeds, but you will definitely be punished for the improper, impermissible and unlawful.” Now I have received the punishment for such...

(348)

Many of the lines that Magtymguly recited as the signs of the brilliant Türkmen spirit have already become proverbs in the daily lives of the Türkmen nation:

Pyragy asks from the Türkmen land / May the enemy keep away from its red rose / Before we pass away / May the enemy retreat immediately!.. O mankind, the Türkmen land is my land / No other farther land is preferable to me... Pyragy my eyes are so tired reflecting upon the homeland / It seems that I will remain apart from my homeland...May vast lands Hydyr wonders about be the share of ours/ Let our homeland be settled and permanent / May we eat at the same table...A brave son comes from a brave father, a coward will never become brave, / Never will a land be unpleasing if those born in that land are  honest!...Rather than remaining homesick in lands far away, / I’d prefer my being in my homeland despite difficulties, or bad treatment...Come my self, listen to my advice,/ May you not leave your hometown...Fighting against one another is not an affair for true men, / This is the devil’s affair, or maybe they are blind against one another, / Conflicts will remove peace from our land / And this will give the enemy privilege in this world...Pyragy I fell in love, / I jumped into the sea and was captured by the waves, / May my descendants not be held low, / I wish for a sustainable peace...The great lands will disperse and slacken / If the brave men do not remain so...A land in conflict, / Is as if it lost peace...One would be ashamed / If the country was headless...If I stole your valuables I did not mean to assault you / Since I am the poor, I have no place other than beside you...”

(380)