So he threw his rod, then lo! it was a clear serpent.

And He has cast great mountains in the earth lest it might be convulsed with you, and rivers and roads that you may go aright,

They said: O Musa! will you cast, or shall we be the first who cast down?

So he cast down his rod, and lo! it was an obvious serpent,

Then Musa cast down his staff and lo! it swallowed up the lies they told.

He created the heavens without pillars as you see them, and put mountains upon the earth lest it might convulse with you, and He spread in it animals of every kind; and We sent down water from the cloud, then caused to grow therein (vegetation) of every noble kind.

Though he puts forth his excuses.