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My purpose in writing Ruhnama is to express explicitly how the nation has contributed much to the sciences, literature, civilizations, and development of the world and in every area of life. I describe our good fortune at the beginning of our history, which affected the world, but in the last seven or eight centuries our nation has shrunk. She is measurably smaller but still not an insignificant nation. Though her name is often not recalled among the great, in fact, she is a very great nation, in her mind, in her spirit, in her blood, in short, in all her entity. I want to show that the great legacy of our ancestors remains. The Türkmen nation has traced marks as magnificent as those of Great Britain, of the Great Indian Nation and of The Great Chinese Nation.

The flag of the Türkmen nation is her pure honour.

The greatness of every Türkmen is the greatness of her nation.

The Türkmen nation gave these to the world:

pure Türkmen horses,

perfect Türkmen carpets,

magnificent Türkmen ornaments,

wonderful Türkmen clothing and finery,

pure white wheat,

and the species of the yellowish sheep.

During the era of the Gaznaly Mahmyt, the Seljuk Kingdom, Köneürgenç states, Türkmen was the leading nation