[Ekzamenov]

In the early 70's there were 2 publications around:

Awake to the call of islam: very much in the style of the mujlis in terms of the tone adopted in the articles.

The muslim digest: under the auspices of ml abdul aleem sidiqque

The mujlis as stated by mufti saheb started in the late 70's

I have 10 copies of the first 2 and they are quite an interesting read.

wasn't Awake a publication of Ml.Desai.If that's the case,then am I correct to say that his first publication was awake which started in the early 70's and The Majlis which started in the late 70's.
I'd be interested in seeing the first publications.
Also wasn't Ml.Siddiqi(r.a.) a student of Hazrat ahmed raza khan a.k.a a'la hajrat--did he also receive ijazah(tasawwuf) from hazrat raza.

was salaam