Kalem means "eternal" in Arabic, and the Kalem Cosmological argument is an argument both Christians and Muslims can rightly use to show there is a God. Norm Geisler in the Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics p.399 calls it "a horizontal (linear) form of the cosmological argument."
Kalem maana yake ni "a milele" katika Kiarabu na hoja ya Kalem kikosmolojia ni hoja ambayo Wakristo na Waislamu pia wanaweza kuitumia kuonesha kuwa kuna Mungu. Norm Geisler katika Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics uk.399 yaiita hoja hii kuwa ni "hoja ya kikosmolojia yenye muundo tambarare."