resurrected with their spirit, their memory, even their capillary blood-vessels again. This person is capable of living, feeling the love of the mother-earth and the protection of the fatherland. This person begins to view his own personality as a stronger link in the chain of the generations, as if he has been released from moral loneliness and alienation. If Allah wills it, the generations who drink deeply from the clean water of the spring of philosophy of the “Ruhnama” may grow into beautiful, moral people.

Life trains people and history trains the character.

The “Ruhnama” is a book opening the spring of the mind and meeting the thirst of the dry intellect. In our recent past the number of thirsty intellects has increased and the thirst for those springs in the clearings of the morals of Türkmens. As we have changed our outside world, the clear water fountains and red and green rose gardens in our inner world must be increased. We say Türkmenistan, day by day, is more and more pleasing and beautiful public buildings are being constructed.

I have been witnessing the heart of my nation growing into its own beauty. I agree with the principle that, “Beauty, primarily, must be within the heart of the people”. I am honoured by the current successes.

Secondly, turning back to our early comparison between “Oguznama” and Ruhnama, we can say that Oguznama is a book which is only related to the past. In these books the future is not living either as an idea or a target or a sign. On the other hand, the basic feature of the “Ruhnama” is that I can analyse and present the past from the perspectives of the future. In my view the past is the possibility of the future