Original sentence: 0n July, 20 1900, Ahmad issued a poster in which he proposed a gathering at Lahore to hold a written contest in Arabic consisting of writing a commentary on 40 verses (selected by ballot) of the Qur'an after invoking divine assistance.Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in an earlier book Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he felt that they were ineffective in reforming the religious clergy.Ghulam Ahmad refused to engage in oral debate.In 1898 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have seen in a vision an imminent plague  that was about to rage in the Punjab  and warned people against it.Instead he would invoke God for divine intervention by holding such contests or ‘prayer duels’ which he called Ejazi-Muqabala or Miraculous contest between him and his opponents; primarily Christian missionaries and Muslim Scholars and divines.Later he published an advertisement proposing a "battle" of written commentary on the opening chapter of the Quran to settle their dispute
Edited sentence: 0n July, 20 1900, Ahmad issued a poster in which he proposed a gathering at Lahore to hold a written contest in Arabic  consisting of writing a commentary on 40 verses (selected by ballot) of the Qur'an after invoking divine assistance.Ahmad's followers claim that he had categorically vowed in Anjam-e-Atham not to engage in any more debates, as he judges them ineffective at convincing clergy to reform.Ghulam Ahmad refused to debate.In 1898 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad claimed to have seen in a vision an imminent plague and warned people against it.Later he published an advertisement proposing a battle of written commentary on the opening chapter of the Quran to settle their dispute