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Love your land so that your love fills your granary like the crops which wave like a sea. Your love endows with its blessed favour the plane tree, the pomegranate, the apricot, the plum, and the apple.

 

Reason and mind shall serve to strengthen our moral independence and sovereignty. The doors of our neutral state are always open to the external world. However, there must be intellectual labourers at these doors. Accepting ideas and thoughts haphazardly does moral damage. We must adapt these values to our own moral, intellectual and cultural structure.

Our ancestors left us examples of the love and respect that must be shown to the fatherland.

Here is an example of the Türkmen’s love for his fatherland.

 

At the period when Oguz Han’s state was not yet very powerful, taking advantage of this situation, a powerful state tried to capture Oguz land by war. The enemy sent a messenger and demanded the best horse in the Oguz country.

Oguz Han’s commanders put forward their ideas:

“The enemy is ill-meaning. Let us make war, but let us not give the pedigree horse.”

Oguz Han said to them:

“It is wrong to prefer the worst, when what is only worse is still possible. One never knows, we may lose all our horses if we are defeated. Give him the horse and let him go!”


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