Praise be to Allah, and may peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah. To proceed:
Guidance and misguidance are in the hands of Allah تعالى and occur by His will. Whoever Allah guides, no one can mislead; and whoever He misleads, no one can guide.
Allah تعالى says: “Whoever Allah guides is truly guided, and whoever He misguides, you will never find for him a guiding protector.” [Al-Kahf: 17]
And He سبحانه says: “Indeed, you cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He wills.” [Al-Qasas: 56]
And He says: “So whoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his heart to Islam; and whoever He wills to misguide, He makes his chest tight and constricted, as though he were climbing into the sky.” [Al-An'am: 125]
Nothing occurs within the dominion of Allah تعالى except by His will and decree, including the guidance and misguidance of a servant. However, this does not mean that a person is compelled in his choices. Rather, he has his own will and choice, and he is held accountable for what he chooses, whether faith or disbelief, obedience or disobedience.
Thus, the error of the claim made by those who maintain that a person is completely independent in his actions, and that good and evil occur solely by the person's will without the will of Allah تعالى, becomes clear. Allah سبحانه does not allow anything to occur within His dominion without His will.
And Allah تعالى knows best.