The Concept of Evidence and its Role in Understanding of a Text

In order to understand religions texts, Muslim scholars have achieved rules by which we can determine the meaning of text. Human uses word as a means of conveying the intended meaning of the speakers. Due to conventional relationship between words and meaning, we can convey the intended meaning of the word. But sometimes the words are used to convey a meaning other than what it was assigned for. But if the words and meaning are not linked together, how words can convey the meaning? It is said in response that the meaning in such case (virtual application) is conveyed by the evidence. In this paper, we have studied the concept of evidence, its role in understanding a text and its method of operation in conveying the meaning. In some cases, evidence along with the main word is used to express a second meaning. In addition, evidence conveys the intended meaning via the logical relationship with the concept of other components of the text.