«وَلَا أَخُصُّ بِحِبَائِي إِلَّا أَحِبَّائِي»
I reserve my gifts for none but my dear friends.
Lā akhuṣṣu negates the speaker’s practice of singling people out for gifts. Illā aḥibbāʾī restricts the recipients to beloved friends. The structure is a form of qaṣr through negation followed by exception.
Unlike a general declaration of kindness, this construction draws a deliberate boundary around generosity. Its narrowness is important in the debate between unconditional goodwill and reciprocal friendship.
ExpressionFunction
Idhā nazalnāTemporal condition
Aw waradnāAlternative possibility