In the well-known Muʿtazilī account, divine guidance principally means explaining and inviting people toward the right path. This account emphasizes human acceptance or refusal and differs from the Sunni explanation of the creation of guidance and misguidance.
The Sunni response is that making general explanation the whole meaning of divine guidance leaves passages concerning divine will and the negation of effective guidance insufficiently explained.
The parties do not disagree that prophets explain the path. The central dispute concerns how to account for the actual realization of being guided and its creation.