thing: we ourselves are forming our history, present and future because Allah gave us mind and will. This superior nature is not a gift but a debt.

I want to make the young Türkmen alert to this simple fact and to awaken his whole heart and mind to this fact. Why is the Türkmen people a great people? There are various reasons. “Ruhnama” focuses on all those great Türkmens. They are great because such great Türkmens made their own historians and foreign historians say that the Türkmen has been alive for five thousand years.

The Türkmen is all the greater for valuing creativity. These values were quickly accepted in the early ages of mankind. Within these values, there are both moral and material values.

The most immediately visible aspects of our nation are the striking material values: the horse, the carpet, our musical instruments (dutar), jewellery and ornaments, local/native breed/species dog (alabay), the yellowish breed of sheep and the genus of white wheat. It is obvious that there is no need to find evidence to prove that these belong to the Türkmens. They are there in full view for all to see. Moreover these values are all pure values which have reached the zenith of their maturity in their areas. In short, these are unique and inimitable values without compare.

Perfection and uniqueness here is the main measure of the value. These kinds of values clearly demonstrate the perfection and uniqueness of the free development of Türkmens as one nation because in its perfection the work shows the craftsman’s mastery. The measurement of the perfection of the work is the measurement of the skill, the physical and moral