Al-Muqit
Al-Muqit is the Sustainer — the One who apportions nourishment to every creature and has power over all of it.
Name 39 of 99
الْمُقِيتُ
Al-Muqit
The Sustainer
- In Arabic
- الْمُقِيتُ
- Transliteration
- Al-Muqit
- Position in the list
- Name 39 of 99
Al-Muqit — The Sustainer
What the name means
Qut in Arabic is the measure of food that keeps a body alive — not abundance, but exactly enough. The name therefore joins provision with precision: what is given is weighed.
The single verse carrying it uses the sense of oversight too: Allah is ever, over all things, Muqit — able, watchful, and in charge of what He apportions.
Living by this name
It answers the fear of running out. What sustains you is measured by the One who measures, and the Prophet ﷺ warned that it is enough sin for a person to neglect those he is obliged to feed.
Its response is to hold provision as a trust rather than a possession. See also Ar-Razzaq and Al-Hasib.
Al-Muqit in the Quran
The verse below contains this name. Each reference is checked against the Arabic text of the Quran before it is published, so Al-Muqit really is in the verse it is cited from.
مَّن يَشْفَعْ شَفَٰعَةً حَسَنَةًۭ يَكُن لَّهُۥ نَصِيبٌۭ مِّنْهَا ۖ وَمَن يَشْفَعْ شَفَٰعَةًۭ سَيِّئَةًۭ يَكُن لَّهُۥ كِفْلٌۭ مِّنْهَا ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَىْءٍۢ مُّقِيتًۭا
Whoever intercedes for a good cause will have a reward therefrom; and whoever intercedes for an evil cause will have a burden therefrom. And ever is Allah, over all things, a Keeper.
Surah An-Nisa 4:85Read the full surah →
How reliable is the list of ninety-nine?
That Allah has ninety-nine names is established in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, and both are agreed upon. The specific enumeration — this list of ninety-nine — comes from a narration in Jami' at-Tirmidhi that at-Tirmidhi himself called gharib, and which many hadith scholars grade weak; several held that a narrator compiled the names by searching the Quran and Sunnah. Classical scholars including al-Khattabi, Ibn Hazm, al-Qurtubi and al-Ghazali compiled lists of their own that differ from it. None of this touches the names themselves, every one of which is established elsewhere; it means the count of exactly these ninety-nine is a scholarly arrangement rather than a revealed roster, and Allah's names are not limited to them.
Questions about Al-Muqit
Al-Muqit (الْمُقِيتُ) means "The Sustainer". Like every one of the ninety-nine names, it describes an attribute of Allah rather than serving as a label — the names are how the Quran teaches who Allah is.
Yes. This page cites 1 verse containing Al-Muqit, each checked against the Arabic text before publishing.
Address Allah with "Ya" before the name — "Ya Muqit" — and ask for what that attribute gives. The Quran instructs it directly: "To Allah belong the most beautiful names, so call upon Him by them" (7:180).
It is number 39 in the well-known list. The order comes from the narration of at-Tirmidhi and is a scholarly arrangement, so numbering can differ slightly between printed lists — the names themselves do not.