Türkmens, without distinction, should not deceive, should not lie, should be honest, and should not be jealous. Good morals and honesty are the characteristics which suit the Türkmen best. The Türkmens who have these qualities should be the citizens of the 21st century. May Allah give us strength and patience on this road.

The never ending spiritual source for a true Türkmen, who continously ponders on his spiritual world, who really worries about his well-being, who is self-conscoius, alert and careful about enhancing his intellectual, physical and spiritual capacites, should be the Ruhnama, which never lets his exuburant, sensitive, poetic and sublime heart, and longing-for spirit, deeply felt enthusiasm and inner feelings, extinguish.

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Fate gave me the role of being leader of Türkmenistan at the juncture of the second and third millennia. The burden of the responsibility of taking my people from the last years of the second millennium, in which things did not go well, to the summits of the third millenium fell onto my shoulders.

This position and responsibility, which have been given to me without my asking, have motivated me to call up my spiritual, intellectual and physical strength that Allah granted me with and use them as a societal force to achieve progress in my country. I understand that it is necessary to call up not only my own strength but also all the national spiritual strength given to the whole Türkmen nation. Indeed, throughout history which connects one generation to the others, there is a law of individual-society relations: the power which has been generated by the society in one era comes to life in an individual matured in the same nation at a later point. This should not be put to keeping people where they are but to