How Many Would Be in the Jannah?

Muslims like to say that Islam is growing and that there will be so many Muslims by such-and-such a year. But if their claims were true, how many would make it to the Jannah (or jannahs)? In this post we shall be looking at a few Quran passages.

S 15:47 And we have deprived of what is in the chests of rancour, brothers facing one another on beds.

Would there be a number of beds, perhaps in a brothel, with Muslims chatting to one another between acts of debauchery?

S 37:43-44 In the jannat of bliss, /On beds facing one another.

S 44:53 Wearing sundus and istabraq facing one another.

S 56:15-16 On mawdun beds, /Reclining thereon facing one another.

If there were millions (or billions) of Muslims in the Jannah(s), how might they be facing one another? It all sounds rather like an AA meeting sitting in a circle. What with those rivers of wine, who knows how similar it might be? :)) The Quran suggests a small number of those who make it.

Further reading:

The Jannah-Bound

Some Thoughts on Al-Jannah