How can one find the truth when everything can be interpreted differently?

God does not ask anyone for more than they are able to understand. Whoever searches honestly and to the best of their knowledge is safe with God, even if they have not yet reached the whole truth.

It is true that people understand the same texts in very different ways. The abilities with which they search also differ. One might conclude that only the cleverest find the truth and everyone else is lost. But that is not so, because religious truth has two sides.

There is the perfect truth that lies with God. And there is the truth that a person can reach with the means they have. Whoever searches honestly and comes to a conclusion to the best of their knowledge is safe with God, even if they miss the full truth. The first verse above says that God burdens no one beyond their capacity. What matters is whether the search is sincere and not driven by calculation or ill will.

The hadith above points in the same direction. God meets a person according to how that person thinks of Him. He looks at the heart with which someone comes to Him, not only at the precision of their ideas.

An example from science makes this clear. Galileo saw the universe far more correctly than the people around him. Compared with what later researchers knew, his picture was still very incomplete, because his instruments were simple. Even so, he carried the light for his time. No one blames him for not knowing what was only discovered later.

It is the same with the search for God. Everyone stands at a different point on the way. To whoever keeps walking honestly, the second verse above promises that God will lead them on in His ways.