So God sent forth a raven to scratch the land and show him how to bury his brother's body. He said, "Woes on me, I failed to be like this raven and bury my brother's body!" So he became of those who regretted.
Translation endnotes
[5:31] Burying the body is not the only way of eliminating the health and psychological harms of decaying corpses. In some countries, burning the corpse is more economical than burying. Some scientists studying the intelligence level of birds consider the crow to be the bird with the highest I.Q (The I.Q. level of those scientists has not yet been investigated, though).