LET ME SEE WHAT I’VE WORKED FOR IN YOUR SMILING FACES!

My dear Türkmen people!

The rose blossoms from within, and may you blossom as a rose would. This way you will win the hearts of other people. Speak of good things, do good and favours to all, be courteous and complimentary to them. The smile is a sign of love. Smiling faces bear a sacred light in them. Allah says, “Those smiling high-spirited people are closer to Me, I will grant them twice as much as I will grant to others.” The smile is the reflection of the human soul. People who smile are generous because they are successful in the jobs they do. Through a smile, man pleases not only himself but those with whom he has contact. People who smile become more beautiful.

“There will never be any wrinkles on a smiling face,” as the saying goes. This means people who smile do not easily become old.

I often remember my mother. Her smile still appears before my very eyes although she passed away more than fifty years ago. The smile is visible to me in the dark of the night, even if I have my eyes shut.

My mother wove rugs all day.

The sound of the loom echoed in our home like the clatter of hoofs. I woke up early, as usual, and I saw that my mother was awake working. She kept on working after putting us to bed. I was rather worried, for my mother did not take a rest as other mothers did. She would not go out either. It was only after she passed away that I could understand that she worked