Is there a greater sin upon the religious man (the Mutawwi') than upon the average person if they commit the same sin, such as listening to music, backbiting, or mocking?

The basic principle is equality among people in punishment, but an evil deed may be accompanied by something that increases its punishment, such as the perpetrator committing it while being knowledgeable. Thus, their punishment is more severe than that of the ignorant, based on the Almighty's saying: "And whoever comes with an evil deed - then those who did evil deeds will not be recompensed except for what they used to do."

Indeed, the punishment of a knowledgeable person for their disobedience is doubled because they disobeyed with knowledge. That is why the Almighty said: "Say, 'Are those who know equal to those who do not know?'" And because they are a role model, many people may stumble due to their misstep. Whoever establishes a bad precedent bears its burden and the burden of those who act upon it after them. It has been reported in the Hadith (definition): "A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and cast into the Fire, and his intestines will spill out, and he will go around with them as a donkey goes around a millstone. The inhabitants of the Fire will gather around him and say, 'O so-and-so, what is wrong with you? Were you not enjoining good and forbidding evil?' He will say, 'Yes, I used to enjoin good but did not do it, and I used to forbid evil but did it.'"

All humans are fallible, and the religious person is not infallible. It is not permissible to emulate them in their mistakes. Rather, it is obligatory to advise and remind them.