Majority of Muslim scholar forbid interest by considering it as usury and minority of them allow it. In the Syrian law there is a huge confusing in the concept of "interest". Most of the jurists think that it is a simple compensation although that the interest has two large concepts: civil and commercial. The interest in accordance with the civil concept is a compensation for damages. The law provides three different methods to fix the value of interest as compensation: - interest rate to be fixed by the courts. - Interest rate to be fixed by agreement of the contracting parties - And interest rate to be fixed by law.