What Is Meant Here?
What is meant is the attribution to Shahrur of a conception that sees Hell as having an internal division or levels, likened to prison “wards.” The available content here does not document the details or names of those levels.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The available evidence, in an unreviewed paraphrase, is that Hell “is not a single mass, but has levels or ‘wards’ like prisons.”
This evidence does not establish the exact wording used by Shahrur himself, because it does not include a verbatim quotation or raw context.
Atlas Explanation
The word “wards” can be read here as an organizational analogy: that punishment is not presented as one homogeneous place, but as a division with levels. This explains the meaning of the available paraphrase; it is not an additional attribution to Shahrur.
Conclusion
The available content here is insufficient to say that each designation for punishment represents a particular division, or that they have a fixed order. Nor is it sufficient to establish that the analogy describes a specific physical structure.
Open Question and Documentation Limits
It is necessary to return to Episode 25 to extract the exact statement and its context, then examine the proposed connections in Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence and The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration. In their current state, these connections do not constitute direct evidence for the claim.