Nār as samūm (Arabic: نار السموم, meaning "fire of poison"; also spelled Simoom or Semum; from the root س م م s-m-m, سم "to poison") is a concept in Islam referring to a type of infernal fire or hot wind.
The term is associated with a specific type of storm found in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, called simoom.
[5][6] In Islamic traditions, it is usually interpreted as a kind of fire, which penetrates through the skin of human body in contrast to marijin min nar.
On the authority of Abu Ubaidah, samūm is the fire that "penetrates the pores due to its fineness in the day-time as well as at night."
[18] His depiction might have been influenced by the Islamic portrayal of Iblis who is similarly imagined as an angel related to samūm who refused to bow down before Adam.
[19] Likewise, Manichaeans relate their concept of the Devil, who is also called "Iblīs al-Qadīm" (Iblis without beginning),[20] to the pestilential winds (samūm) in one of the five Kingdoms of darkness.
[21] According to nineteenth-century Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, Ottoman-era legends identify the hot "red wind" Samum as a div (demon) who assisted Satan in his plots against the prophet Solomon.