Guidance on Distinguishing Between Truth and Falsehood When Opinions Differ

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: The opinions of the scholars have multiplied, and the mujtahids have exercised independent legal reasoning, each citing evidence and defending it to support his opinion and what he says. His question is: What guidance do you give us on which of these scholars’ opinions to follow? And how do we distinguish the truth in this matter?

Answer:
What agrees with the Book and the Sunnah. The Sunnah without distortion and without figurative interpretation is the truth. As for the one who forces the evidence to fit his desire and interprets it according to his desire, he is misguided, even if he claims to derive evidence from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, because he did not derive evidence from them in their proper manner; rather, he distorted them, altered them, and changed their meaning. Yes.