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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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