Which interpretation best fits “الْإِنْشَاءُ” in context?

Inshāʾ and Tamannī: Requests, Wishing, Exhortation, and Reproach

• Wishing for the impossible — Would that youth might return one day.
• The basic nature of inshāʾ — Inshāʾ: discourse that does not merely report a prior fact.
• Interrogative hal used as a wish — Would that I had an intercessor.
• Literal versus transferred force — Would that / whether / if.