O Lord, strip Your poor servant, who *** hopes for Your grace, the weakest of the two servants (Explaining that the description of servitude is the greatest description, and Ibn al-Qayyim's humility and his disparagement of himself before his Lord)

The Shaykh : May Allah reward him with good. The author (may Allah have mercy on him) supplicated to his Lord (Mighty and Majestic), saying:
"O Lord, strip Your poor servant, who *** hopes for Your grace, the weakest of the two servants"
He means himself, asking Allah (Glorified and Exalted is He) to save him. He describes himself as a servant of Allah, and servitude is the noblest description that a person can possess. For this reason, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) mentions it in the context of support, challenge, and explaining the favor upon the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). He says, challenging: He says, supporting: He says, explaining His favor: He also describes himself as poor relative to whom? To Allah. He describes his Lord as the weakest of the two servants. This is in the category of seeking forgiveness from Allah. He describes himself as the weakest of the two servants, and this is in the category of lowering oneself and humility. Otherwise, he is not the weakest of the two servants, for he has not traveled among the servants of Allah to know that he is the weakest of them.