The word "kalam" is Arabic for ‘speaking’ but more generally the word can be interpreted as ‘theological philosophy’.

 

This is the argument in its general form:

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1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its existence.

2. All matter, space and time began to exist.

3. Therefore, the universe–everything that exists, everything that has existed, and everything that will exist – has a cause. 

4. God is the best explanation for this cause.

5. Therefore, God exists.

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The Kalam Argument's main flaws:

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1- It doesn't prove that the first cause was a being, and it certainly does not suggest that this being is eternal,

    omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, personal and moral. 

2- It does not prove that the first cause itself was without a cause and it would not prove that a first cause existed

3- it does not indicate that the cause of the universe was the Abrahamic God.