خَازِنٌ

[One who reposits, stows, lays up, keeps, preserves, or guards, property, &c.; a treasurer]: (K, TA:) plural خَازِنُونَ and خَزَنَةٌ. (TA.) [The latter of these pls. is applied in the Qur'an. xxxix. 73 to The keepers, or guardians, of Paradise: and in xxxix. 71 and xl. 52 and lxvii. 8 to those of Hell.] مَا أَنْتُمْ لَهُ بِخَازِنِينَ, in the Qur'an, 15:22, according to some], means (assumed tropical:) Ye are not bearing it in mind with thankfulness. (TA.)

(tropical:) The tongue; as also ↓ خَزَّانٌ. (K, TA.) Hence the saying of Lukmán to his son, إِذَا كَانَ خَازِنُكَ حَفِيظًا أَمِينَةً رَشْدْتَ فِى أَمْرَيْكَ دُنْيَاكَ وَاخِرَتِكَ ↓ وَخِزَانَتُكَ, i. e. (tropical:) [When] thy tongue [is such as keeps the secret confided to thee], and thy heart [is trustworthy, thou wilt follow the right way in respect of thy two states, thy state in the present world and thy state in the world to come]. (TA.)