God becomes the helper of those people who pray to Him with humility, hoping the acceptance of their meekness.
A pious man used to pray a lot to God to be free from sins. After lots of prayers, he wondered how he could attain a high level of humility. He learned that no one is humbler than a dog, so he started yelping like a dog. Another person thought that a dog had managed to come into the mosque who might make his utensils filthy. This individual looked around and found the pious man but did not find any dog. He said to the pious man that he had heard a dog yelping. The pious man said that it was he himself who was the dog. He was asked, ‘Why were you yelping like a dog?’ The pious man said, ‘The Almighty God likes humility, so I thought by acting like a dog, my humility may be accepted [by God].
(Malfuzat, Vol. 6, p. 61)