Their Blood… is Light and Fire
This is the title of a half-page article at 14:13 (published in January 2016) mocking ISIS’ enemies’ celebration of the killing of its leaders. It looks at examples from the time of the prophet Mohammed up to the present day to show how the “project” they were fighting for only grew stronger, concluding that the “martyrdom of leaders” is “a blessing for jihad and mujahideen”. ISIS’ enemies “rejoice at killing our leaders, but we rejoice more than they do”.
Apart from the prophet Mohammed, the names as given in the text are:
حمزة بن عبد المطلب
مصعب بن عمير
آل البيت والصحابة
أم الإسلام عائشة
أبو بكر الصديق
الشيخ المجاهد العالم العامل أبو أنس الشامي
الشيخ أبي مصعب الزرقاوي
الشيخ المجاهد أبي عبد الله أسامة بن لادن
عمر
مولانا أمير المؤمنين إبراهيم
حجي بكر
أبي أسامة المغربي
أبي مهند السويداوي
أبو مالك التميمي
The metaphor is relatively common in jihadi circles and appears to have its origin in an unattributed phrase:
دم الشهداء نورٌ للسائرين، ونارٌ على المعتدين
[Rough translation: The blood of martyrs is light to those on the same path, and fire against the aggressors]
It occasionally appears in Al-Naba’ martyr stories, such as at 106:7:
فلما قُتل -تقبله الله- تحولوا إلى شعلة من النشاط وكأنهم كلهم أبو عبد الله، كان دمه نور ونار وما هو إلا قليل حتى اصطفاهم الله -تعالى- إثر قصف يهودي أثناء انحيازهم لأحد المناطق ببعض المصابين لعلاجهم
When he – may Allah accept him – was killed, they turned into a blaze of activity as if they were all Abu Abdullah, his blood was light and fire, and shortly after Almighty Allah chose them in a Jewish bombardment as they withdrew to another area with some of the injured to treat them
Other examples in the martyr stories can be found at 87:14 and 74:8.