As I got from the Explanation, I consider that Slave is small part of Servant. That Means, If we are a slave, we are also a servant.
But If we are a Servant, It doesn't mean we are a Slave.
This means that Slave of Allah is rarest person than Allah's Servant.
As You've said, that Allah gives us free will and also repays us eternally with Jannah. The Free Will means that we always can choose either to be only a Servant or become a Slave.
Me myself think that Servant will be kind of doing everything Allah said in Quran.. We're doing this because we believe, and We have to do it. In daily life, maybe we still choose and think rationally about what will be good for us in this life, for each decision and activity...
However, A slave will always think of Allah (will Allah like this, Will Allah please with Me?) in each decision We make, and each activity We do.
Another translation I have read is a devotee, which I guess is more about worship by choice, instead of being forced to.
Because Allah is al-Adl, arRahmanirRahim, He is not unjust - for me it does not really matter I am considered slave or servant or devotee.
If anything I'd rather serve, be a slave, or devote myself to Allah than anyone else anyway. I will suffer no injustice nor oppression from Him, Rabbi al'alamin.
Jabir bin 'Abdullah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) said:'A slave (of Allah) shall not believe until he believes in Al-Qadar, its good and its bad, such that he knows that what struck him would not have missed him, and that what missed him would not have struck him." (Jami 'at Tirmidhi)
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