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The
spiritual world of the Türkmen
When
I talk of the spiritual world of the Türkmen, I speak of his morally
high mode, his awareness of the fact that mankind always lives on hope,
his confidence in his country, nation
and justice, and of his certainty that his needs and desires will be
met.
When
man loses hope, his spirit is drowned and he becomes disappointed. A man
should have feelings of mercy, honesty, justice, spiritual loftiness, an
ideal to maintain integrity, a love of his nation, neighbours, fellow
citizens and his country in his heart.
Allah
bestowed upon man a body and spirit when He created him. The individual
spiritual strength of men contributes to the moral elevation of a
society. If a man is strong spiritually, the society he belongs to will
have the same strength.
When
one thinks of the concept of time in its peculiar conditions, one can
see life shrink into a single entity or being. That being neither speaks
nor hears. However it expresses itself through the winds whirling over
the endless Garagum desert, and the winds surfing through the peaks of
the waves of the Caspian Sea, and the gentle breezes that flow down from
Mount Köpet. And this has a bearing on the Türkmen spirit.
(287-288.)
The
spiritual life has three essential components.
The
spiritual life has three essential components. These are the
mind,
wisdom and memory. The first two we inherit from our forefathers. I
always see the making of human life and maturity in two periods.
The
first period is the one in which the person does not know about or
recognize himself. The second is the one when man starts to know and
recognize himself. The period which starts after man gets to know
himself is called the period of memory. In this period the human memory
grows to completion and he remembers the events and happenings that take
place in this period. In other words, this period is the individual and
personal life. The man lives off the experiences of the lives of his
ancestors before this period. It is wisdom that presides over this
earlier period. This wisdom includes properties inherited from our
forefathers, such as body, blood, creativity, renewal, productivity and
mobility.
The
noble spirit of his ancestors makes the Türkmen very active and joyous
in his spiritual world. This spirit is the source of his love for the Türkmen
nation, language, religion, nature, music, of his love for his family
and life, in sum, for all proper traditions.
(289.)
We
must maintain properly the soul granted to us by Allah.
The
soul is - a part of Allah located in ourselves. We must maintain properly
the soul granted to us by Allah.
(305.)
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