brilliant as our cotton, as emotional as our music, as modest as our nature.

Türkmens are the people, whose doors and hearts are unlocked, whose eyes are pure and brilliant as spring water, and whose hearts are as clear and clean as the sky.

Praise be to Allah a hundred thousand times.

Sin does not get entrap the Türkmen.

Türkmens put an infinite border between right and wrong.

The Türkmen does not take anything by force because he believes that Allah protects the weak.

He does not take what he did not give before.

Once upon a time, a wife and a husband without any children were preparing to go to Mekka on pilgrimage. However, they could not decide what to do with the two hundred sikkes, which was their life-savings. Finally they divided the sikkes into two equal bundles. They left one of these bundles in the care of one of their neighbours. And they left the other bundle in the care of their Türkmen neighbour.

The Türkmen neighbour said to them:

“Open the box in that corner and put the bundle in it.”

On returning from pilgrimage, the husband and wife went to take their money.

The first neighbour said them:

“Oh neighbour, I used your money and increased your 100 sikkes to 150 sikkes. I have taken some of them for myself.”

Then they went to their Türkmen neighbor and asked for their sikkes. Their Türkmen neighbor said to them: