The Egyptian magazine Al-Hilal, the oldest cultural magazine in the Arab world, published a report by the journalist Mamdouh Al-Saghir, entitled «Ahmed Radwan .. Guardian loved by Nasser», on the relationship of the late Egyptian leader with the mystic world Saidi Ahmed Radwan, whom he met Gamal Abdel Nasser as a kind of Religious spiritual support and psychological comfort, in light of the political burdens he is experiencing.

The Egyptian minister in the Nasserist era, Dr. Abbas Hassan Zaki, the enforcer of the decision to nationalize the Suez Canal, which was known for his Sufi orientations, stated in one of his books that «Nasser was not a Sufi, but belonged to a Sufi family in terms of his mother, and that he was a mediator in the relationship with the world Religious Ahmed Radwan ». Zaki recounted that he himself traveled to Upper Egypt to bring the Sufi Sheikh to Cairo.

Mamdouh Al-Saghir told Emirates Today that the relationship between Sheikh Sufi Ahmed Radwan and President Abdel Nasser in the 1960s was strengthened by Minister Abbas Hassan Zaki, who noted that the president is in a state of stress due to the political pressures surrounding him. He sat down with the religious scholar, and the invitation was extended, and the sheikh responded to the president's request. Who come to the arena, that it's the president's pocket, not from the lung The Republic of Egypt.

"The visits were repeated, and the bonds of love were born between them. When the murids asked Ahmed Radwan about the president's condition, he said, I saw a man in the full sense of the word, meaning magnanimity and manliness. When Sheikh fell ill, Nasser asked to bring him to a Cairo hospital and spent his last days in the house of a close officer From the late leader until his death on June 10, 1967, Nasser ordered the preparation of Radwan's body for burial in Luxor, and was traveling by car, because there was no flight at the time, where his death was a few days after the war of June 5, 1967 ».

The leader of the Nasserite Party, Mohamed Fouad, told «Emirates Today», «« the story of Nasser's relationship with the religious scholar Ahmed Radwan reveal the depth of his relationship with religion in general, and simple popular religiosity ».