[2] He met a follower of the Abu El Hassan el-Shazli Order, and they established a Sufi community with people from various backgrounds.

[3][4] Rafea's teachings as a Sufi spiritualist were the basis of establishing the Egyptian Society for Spiritual and Cultural Research, drawing on ideas of European and American spiritualists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The basis on which the concept and guidance of Rafea was built is that Sufism and spirituality do not contradict each other, but rather harmonize and agree, because both address the inner human being and the essence of man.

Rafea's Islamic spiritual teachings are founded on understanding the diverse levels of fitra, which points to the Divine's working laws in all the cosmos.

He has ten children, including his son Ali, who is continuing his father's religious teachings.