easy to know or measure others, but the real difficulty is to know oneself! For that reason our wise ancestors said: “Those who know themselves become the saints.”

Dear Türkmen!

Be your own ruler. If you succeed in managing yourself, then you can overcome all difficulties.

My Citizens! The Türkmen of today and tomorrow should know himself. He should know his weakness and his strength, through and through! The doctor who knows the problem can easily solve it. The people who can judge their problems can avoid the problems! Ruhnama is the Türkmen’s book about himself.

Ruhnama is not only our book! Ruhnama is also the book of our brothers and other nations that rejoice at our happiness and are proud of our successes and with whom we are together creating our Golden Age in these lands.

Ruhnama is also the book of our near and far brothers and neighbours. You become friends after you get to know someone. The foreigners who read Ruhnama will know us better, became our friends faster, and the far and the foreign becomes closer to us on our path to being accepted in the world.

Türkmenistan which has been the centre of many great transformations and a centre of development and progress, had a very special place in the history and expansion of Islam into the world. Türkmen people have made unlimited contributions to the world.

If one wished to create a flag of beauty and perfection, then this flag would be a Türkmen carpet.