مُقِيتٌ
1.
[Giving, or a giver of, food, nourishment, or sustenance. (See 1, first sentence.)
2.
And hence,] Keeping, preserving, guarding, or protecting; or a keeper, &c.; synonym حَافِظٌ [as signifying thus; and apparently as signifying also watching; or a watcher]: (S, A, O, Msb, K:) and witnessing; or a witness; synonym شَاهِدٌ; (S, O, Msb, K;) or شَهِيدٌ: (A:) and AO says that it signifies, with the Arabs, one acquainted (مَوْقُوفٌ) with a thing (عَلَى شَىْءٍ). (TA.) Th cites the following verses (of Es-Semow'al Ibn-Ádiyà, O):
[meaning Would that I knew, but I shall assuredly know when they shall have set it (namely, the صَحِيفَة, or record, of my actions,) near, unfolded, and I am summoned, whether superiority be for me or against me when I am reckoned with: verily I shall be a watcher, or a witness, of the reckoning, or, according to some, as is said in the TA, acquainted with the reckoning]: i. e. I shall know what evil I have done; for [as is said in the Qur'an, 75:14 man shall be a witness against himself: (S, O, TA:) IB says that, according to Seer, the correct reading is, رَبِّى على الحساب مقيت [meaning my Lord is able to make the reckoning] because he who is submissive to his Lord does not describe himself by this epithet: but IB adds that Seer has founded this remark upon the assumption that مقيت is here used as meaning مُقْتَدِرٌ; and that if it be understood as synonym with حَافِظٌ and شَاهِدٌ, the former reading is not objectionable. (TA.)لَيْتَ شِعْرِى وَأَشْعُرَنَّ إِذَا مَاقَرَّبُوهَا مَنْشُورَةً وَدُعِيتُأَلِىَ الفَضْلُ أَمْ عَلَىَّ إِذَا حُوسِبْتُ إِنِّى عَلَى الحِسَابِ مُقِيتُ
3.
المُقِيتُ is one of the best names of God: (TA:) and [as such] signifies The Possessor of power; (Fr, Zj, S, O, Msb, K, TA;) as He who gives to every man his
قُوت [or food], (F, S, O, K, TA,) and likewise to everything: (TA:) or (as one of those names, TA) the Preserver, or Protector, (Zj, TA,) who gives to everything such preservation, or protection, as is needful. (TA.) It is said in the Qur'an, 4:87, وَكَانَ اللّٰهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَىْءٍ مُقِيتًا, (S, O,) meaning [For God is] a possessor of power [over everything, or is omnipotent], (Ksh, Bd, Jel,) so He will requite everyone for what he has done: (Jel:) or a witness, [and] a preserver, or protector, or watcher. (Ksh, Bd.)