eskandar wrote:I've posted this song on Unilang before,
Oh, really? That's great! I'm sorry, I never noticed that before. I think my dad and I are both pretty interested in seeing this movie, but at this point, I'm starting to wonder how to even see movies anymore.
We used to use Netflix for that, but...that's not terribly useful anymore, so...
Anyway.
but now I have a request - would anyone like to kindly translate the
lyrics?
Sure! I'd like to try, at least.
It has a lot of flowery Sanskrit words in it (poetry of any sort in Malayalam usually does), so there are a bunch of words I'll have to look up, but that's okay. I like trying to translate movie songs in Malayalam anyway.
(By the way, if you don't mind me saying so, I'd like to recommend malayalasangeetham.info for Malayalam song lyrics. It has the lyrics for probably every Malayalam movie song I can think of, and you can see them in both Malayalam script and Roman script
).
(and I wonder if jannathin is jannat + some case ending or something - if so, it means heaven)
Yes, it is. That's the genitive case ending.
So it means 'of heaven'. Other Arabic words in the song are:
ka abaa, which is just "Ka'aba";
samsam, which I think is the
Zamzam Well; and
khibilayam (misspelled in that link you gave as
shibilayam; word segmentation is a difficult problem in Malayalam, so it's written there as
shibilayamorunaal even though it could just as well be
s/khibilayam oru naal) from
qibla, i.e. the direction towards Mecca.
So here's my attempt at a translation:
Mecca, Mecca...
What is the point of this lifetime, short as it is,
Except to reach Mecca (and) Medina?
Upon entering your pure homes again, may you, the supreme ones,
Succeed in attaining one more happy lifetime.
May you make it your fate.
May you succeed; may you make it your fate.
Labbaik Allahuma labbaik (2)
In a land wrapped in the holy words
Of the prophet with affection in his eyes,
Oh, in a land wrapped in the holy words
Of the prophet with affection in his eyes,
At a wall of the Ka'aba covered long ago by the fingerprint of Abraham,
May you succeed in bending down and kissing the Black Stone made by the owner of heaven.
May you make it your fate.
May you succeed; may you make it your fate.
Mecca...
Is a place that (I) turn to consciously and subconsciously, Allah,
Allah, Allah, Allah.
What is the point of this lifetime, short as it is,
Except to reach Mecca and Medina?
Every day, carrying the Kaf Mountain(???) on my shoulder along with various burdens of sorrow,
I am leaping over the fiery deserts of old age.
Will I be able to apply a tiny bit of the Zamzam's cool water to a parched, dried lip?
May I succeed; may I make it my fate. (2)
God, Master! (2)
I will walk, limping in pain
For a distance that knows no end
Along a path that grew as soon as I glanced at it.
I will see the pointer towards Mecca one day and salute it. (2)
May I succeed; may I make it my fate. (2)
What is the point of this lifetime, short as it is,
Except to reach Mecca and Medina?
Upon entering your pure homes again, may you, the supreme ones,
In attaining one more happy lifetime...
Labbaik Allahuma labbaik (5)
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And finally, here are a few songs, along with links for the lyrics!
The first one is a Christian religious song. It's basically just a slightly modified version of the Lord's Prayer set to music. Apparently, songs such as this one were used to convince Christians that it was okay to watch movies. Malayalees in general used to believe that going to the theater and watching movies was scandalous, perhaps because of the romantic scenes in many of these movies, but this particular song is meant to appeal to Christian viewers in particular. It's called "Aakaashangalil irikkum" (that is, 'who art in heaven'), and it's from the movie
Naadan Pennu (1967):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A88lQJQWlIELyrics:
http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?1005The other one I'm posting here, "Aniyam Maniyam" from
Pani Theeraatha Veedu (1973), is just a sort of cute song telling a story that resembles the kind of folktales that people tell kids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkJ3Oc2x3YILyrics:
http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?2887
United States (United States) 
As a Malayalee, I feel culturally obliged to make the first songs I post here be from Chemmeen, since that's like the most famous Malayalam movie ever. It's late, so I won't listen to them just yet, but here they are (in order of appearance!) anyway 
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