How a student of knowledge should deal with evidence when it contradicts the statements of his scholars and teachers

Question : The common person, the shaykh who studied with you, must always be a memorizer. How does a person get rid of…

Answer : Yes, this is easy. If, for example, he presents what he used to believe or rule upon to the evidence and it agrees, praise be to Allah. This is because we do not say that it is not permissible to rule or believe except with evidence. I say this because a person may know a matter from what people have practiced, but we say: when the evidence comes, do not make the evidence follow [the opinion] and then try to give it a figurative interpretation (ta'wil), because some people who are fanatical about schools of jurisprudence do this. Yes, you find that when a hadith or a verse comes in contradiction…