Criticism and analysis of Sheikh Tantawi's view on the Permissibility of usury between the government and the nation

Although the sanctity of usury is one of the essentials of religion in Islamic denominations, but the Shia jurists have excluded some cases from the sanctity of usury, including usury between father and son, usury between husband and wife, usury between Muslim and unbeliever. However, the Sunni jurists believe usury also flows in these cases. At the same time, some contemporary Sunni jurists, such as Sheikh Tantawi, put forward a new example under the title of permissible usury between the state and the nation and put forward a series of arguments and references to prove their theory. In this article, which has been done in a descriptive-analytical way, we intend to discuss and debate the issue of usury between the government and the nation, looking at their opinion, which is based on the halal nature of bank interest. What is obtained from the examination of the verses, narrations and jurisprudential texts is that: although there are few opinions based on jurisprudential inferences, that these interests are halal, but the majority of jurists (both Shia and Sunni) believe that: a bank under any title - Mudaraba interest in a fixed and predetermined form, or delay compensation or compensation for the decrease in the value of money, etc. - is not accepted except for the fee limit - even within a reasonable limit - and is subject to usury. Therefore, it seems that Sheikh Tantawi's point of view can be seriously disputed.