Both Jalal al-Din Rumi's allegory of the Anxious Cow in the Masnavi and Farid al-Din Attar's tale of the Halou' in the Elahi Nameh utilize the metaphor of an insatiable, worrying creature to illustrate the spiritual ailment of anxiety over sustenance (rizq) and the absence of absolute trust in God (tawakkul). In both narratives, the creature consumes miraculously renewed abundance daily (an entire island or seven deserts), yet wastes away at night from existential dread over tomorrow's provisions. Comparing these allegories reveals a shared Persian Sufi didactic tradition that critiques the ego's (nafs) temporal anxiety and its blindness to unchanging divine providence.