What changes when “qad” is dropped from “qad taḥaqqaqa al-waʿdu amsi”?

Supplementary Practice 8: Rhetorical Analysis of Five Connected Passages

• Timing disappears as if amsi had also been removed
• The time remains, while an emphatic sense of realization may be reduced
• The statement necessarily acquires stronger emphasis
• A new negation-and-exception restriction is created