Yusha Evans – What’s MGL- – Games over Gangs

			Said I'm already gone off with the labor again to welcome back to the channel for returning members.
If not, if you are new to the channel, make sure you hit that subscribe button and check out all of
our links in description below. Why did I create NGO? Muslim gamers? Lee? What's the point? Is it
gaming harm? Is it a waste of time? What do you what are you doing over here? You show what is the
point of this endeavor? That is what I'm here to explain. Because I've had questions about this for
so long now, over the past three months that we've had mgL up and running, I keep getting the
questions of why am I doing this? What are you doing? Where is this going, etc. So let me give you a
		

			little history and why I decided to create the Muslim gamers league create the content for this
channel, what was the point and purpose? Now we all know that around a year ago COVID-19
restrictions struck the entire globe. And pretty much the traveling that I have been doing for the
past 10 years plus going on 1213 years came to a complete stop. I went from traveling full time all
over the globe almost all the time on the road, spending, you know, a few days to maybe a week,
sometimes more at home and then being out on the road again. And that was the can. The complete
focus that I had was where I was going next and the lecture I was doing etc. With that coming to a
		

			full complete stop in March 2020. I started to have way more free time at home 100 it is a good
thing to be home. It's a good thing to spend time with families good thing to have more time for
studies. But you know, in this lockdown era, there was only so much that you can do as far as
occupation goes within home. And I myself am a gamer I grew up playing video games I grew up with
the Atari system. The very first Atari system I grew up in did send them a Super Nintendo Sega
Genesis. PlayStation one came out I got it PlayStation 2345 all of it. So I've always had you know,
I've always been someone who likes gaming like video games, I just never had the time, especially
		

			over the past 1012 years. The only time I had to play video games was you know, in between some of
my trips and some free time and downtime, I had summers were a little bit more free. I didn't travel
as much in the summer, I tried to spend more time at home with the kids and the family. And so I
would have more time to game with the few brothers that I play with and few friends that I had from
back in the day and also with my children and we all play video games together. So I started to
notice a few things. As I got back into doing a little bit of gaming I had some more free time. And
we are allowed to enjoy hobbies in our free time I used to build called race cars in my free time
		

			before my spinal surgery. Martial Arts is something that I've always done in my free time. Tech is
something I've always been involved with. I've been a techie I grew up as a techie. I've always like
taking things apart. I like knowing how they work. And I like knowing how to make them work better.
etc. So this is always you know, we're allowed to have hobbies. Some people like sports, I love
sports. I like playing football, like playing basketball, like watching basketball like watching
football. I am a human being Yes, I have hobbies, I have hobbies, that outside of you know,
religious things, which is absolutely fine. No one in their right mind would tell you that having
		

			halaal hobbies is hard. I'm not going to do that.
		

			So I started to notice as I started gaming, and I was watching my children more closely because I
had time to spend at home. And that is they they love gaming. And they also love the the watching
other people play games. I don't know when that trend happened. Because again, I've been very busy
for the past decade. I don't know when the trend happened. But the trend is now that people enjoy
watching other people play video games as much as they like playing them themselves. It's become a
form of entertainment. So I started watching this and realizing you know, my kids like to watch
other people play games they like watch tutorials and walkthroughs etc. But where are they going to
		

			get this content? Where are they going to get the content to watch other gamers You know, they're
going to YouTube watching Game as well on Twitch and watching gamers watching live streams. And I'm
realizing I don't have any control over this environment whatsoever. I don't know what's going on in
this environment don't know what these gamers or these streamers are talking about what music they
are playing in the background. You know what games are playing that might involve shut up there
might involve *, it might involved all of the kinds of things what kind of environment all my
kids going to, to watch these gaming streams and learn about gaming. So I started watching some of
		

			these gaming streams myself and realize that was not really a family friendly. Hello, option out
there I did not see.
		

			So I'm thinking to myself and then I started looking into streaming. And I saw a report pop across
		

			late spring 2020 that said that this gaming streaming industry and streaming in general on Twitch
people streaming gaming people stream just chatting people on YouTube as well people do just
streaming games else
		

			To String just talking and people like watching it, that the streaming segment of the entertainment
industry, the streaming segment of the entertainment industry was slated to become the largest
segment and multibillion dollar business in 2020.
		

			And I'm lightbulb clicked in my head. I said, you know, we as Muslims don't have any representation
in this space. And I'm someone who likes gaming, I know there's a lot of Muslims out there who are
are gamers who are techies big why, because when I do have some free time I play with them, my
children play with them. I see Muslims on all the time, I've played with brothers in the call of
duty and Warzone and, and in other games. So I'm realizing that we don't have any space for us, nor
do we have any representation.
		

			And if this is the largest it this is becoming the largest entertainment segment.
		

			And this is an opportunity for that our there's an opportunity for that, because I've always said
Muslims should be in,
		

			in media, and in entertainment, and what I mean by entertainment, and television and movies, there
should always be a proper Islamic representation. So the light bulb went off in my head that we need
to enter this space and create an environment where Muslim gamers, youth, adults, whomever it may be
brothers and sisters, who like gaming, who like tank, who like all of these things, have a space to
come to that is family friendly, that is as hard as we can make it. And that also can help bring the
youth closer to the religion of Islam who can help, you know, keep the youth guided on you know what
to stay away from the pitfalls and the tricks of gaming and the addictiveness of it and more than by
		

			the addictiveness of in the gambling aspect and all of these other things. How can we do that in one
consolidated space, so I started doing my research. And that's where the idea for discord came
because I was involved in a few discord servers. And I realized that discord was a beautiful place
to create an environment for Muslims to go to come together, who have the similar interest of gaming
and tech and all of these things. And then we can moderate this environment. So Muslim gamers league
was born, we created a Discord server. I think this was back in November. We tried to make it
heavily moderated rules and regulations are clear front and center. mud. There's moderators on all
		

			the time and all of our moderators are youth, our greatest moderator Mashallah May Allah bless over
the meadow was 15 years old. Another one of our great moderators is 17 years old, and we're looking
for more moderators, and all of them are from the youth who are moderating this space, making sure
that everything that goes on stays in within Halong parameters, we give guidance, we do reminders,
we have ion channel, we have an Islamic channel, all kinds of reminders being put out, we're putting
reminders on videos that go out on the channel. And we have within within three months, we are going
close to 1800 members 1700 plus eight dinner members who go we get about maybe
		

			1000 members every every week to week so it's it's a beautiful thing when hamdulillah the people are
starting to grow and we're starting to push the discord server so that brothers and sisters can come
and have a safe Hello Space, we have an entire sisters segment that is only for them and is
moderated by sisters. And you have to set your identity permanently in the server as a sister to go
over there. And and we keep that heavily moderated for them so they can have their, their their own
space to be able to do this. We have all kinds of things going on. We have content creators now. We
have I think it's four brothers who are content creators over the middle of the ship at the BNF
		

			Gara, who you might know from his channel here, and on EF Tao, etc. They are out there producing
content under the banner of the Muslim gamers league who are mixing gaming and tech with dour. This
is our higher intent and purpose is that yes, maybe 567 hours playing a video game I'm probably
wasting some time. But if we can take those few couple those same couple hours a week, few hours a
week, then we're playing video games and we are trying to make sure that of course the games are
themselves
		

			within the realms of not being absolutely impermissible. We don't endorse or allow games to be
streamed or playing our servers that involve shared * music, we make sure we teach brothers and
sisters how to turn the music off on games and turn to
		

			the adult portions over games and vulgarity etc. So we're trying to teach our brothers how to key in
sisters how to keep this environment as permissible as possible. But while we're doing our streams
while I'm doing my streams while meta, we're doing some de manera the other content creators that we
have and we'll be opening up the applications for more content creators soon while they're gaming.
They're getting down there talking about the religion that religion is front and center we are
Muslim gamers league. So the religion is front and center and the end goal is to take this in
		

			Make it a huge platform as big as we can ensure along with Diana, to where we can make a dent in the
streaming entertainment industry that people will know that there are Muslims out there who are
upfront about their religion who are also good at gaming, good at Tech good at coding. This, we have
some coders in the server on the left who have created bots and all kinds of things to heavily
moderate our environment, to show that we can live in this world that we are represented in now, as
well as have our religion front and center that we can find the balance, the balance, and this what
we're trying to teach our youth, the balance between the dean and the dunya, and balance between
		

			Dean and dunya. And trying to keep a moderate approach on each. And so far, we've had plenty, so
many non Muslims have come to our streams have come to my streams, and I'm sure the other content
creators will take the same who come to the stream and say, Look, I'm not Muslim, but I love the
environment that you guys have here. It's very chill, it's very family friendly. It's very relaxed,
and we are able to give them that hour in the indirect way. And when people approached us about the
religion, we're able to then discourse with them in a direct way. And when they come to our
channels, when you come to my YouTube channel, you're going to find Islamic content as well, not
		

			just gaming in tech, but we're going to make sure this curated that will content meant for the
streaming industry meant for the streaming entertainment industry. And when you search you Shannon's
been at but I met him on YouTube, you're going to get Islamic content. So we're giving the data in
that way so that we're not just wasting time now, for parents who are watching this.
		

			If you're someone who believes the games are absolutely how long you don't allow gaming your house,
no problem that is your prerogative. And may Allah bless you in that increase you in the hiring
goodness, and grant you the highest ranks. I'm Jen, no problem with that. But this is for those
parents whose children are into video games, who are do have a PlayStation who do have a PC. We also
talked about PC building on the channel. As you can see, if you see on the last video, we did a
video of building the stream PC just a few days ago. And we have two PCs that we built, we're
helping our youth to understand how to build a PC, how it works, etc. For those parents who do have
		

			children like this, this is your opportunity to make sure that they remain in a halal environment
with other Muslims with other Muslims. And we tried to guide that interaction to the best of our
abilities to help bring our youth closer to the religion of Allah subhanho wa Taala while they're
doing something that they enjoy, so we're tasting like this, this is why part of the title was games
over gains, because for me, as a parent, I have three children but hamdulillah I would much rather
than be under my roof, playing a video game with me or other Muslims talking about a loss of kind of
data hearing about a loss of Hannah with that and knowing that Muslims when it's time to pray, we go
		

			and pray we turn off the game, you pause it, we come back, putting our priorities in check, we talk
about priorities all the time. This is an environment I would rather them have in the online space,
rather than a free for all or I don't know what they're being involved in. I don't know who they're
talking to. I don't know what chat rooms are entering into. I don't know what they're watching on
the stream that they're watching. Rather than that I have a moderating environment that goes through
Muslim gamers League, the watching Muslim streamers, they're interacting with Muslims or
hamdulillah. And we're all trying to continually see remind each other about Allah subhanho wa Taala
		

			that is for me, I would much rather have that because that is something I can moderate that
something is under my control. If my kids are when they're all out in the streets, doing who knows
what I have? No, I have no control over that. And this is a crazy world that we live in. And once
you lose control of what your children are doing this is worship and can come in and play and take
them all down the wrong move. I've seen it far too many times I've seen so many parents come to me
like this. So this is the goal is to try to create this moderated environment. This moderated
environment where Muslims who like gaming who like tech who like coding who like PC building, who
		

			like all of these things have a space to come to that as a moderated as high level as possible
environment as we can create insha Allah is not we're always going to make mistakes, they're going
to be things that slip by us and motum on on the discord server, there's going to be games that
syllabus is going to be a game that I might be playing on stream, when something happens that I
can't be, you know, absolute control of some music might pop in for one second, then we have to turn
it all of these things are part of understanding human experience that we do the best that we can
and try to please the loss of Hannah with Anna, as much as we are able. This is why I created Muslim
		

			gamers league because I have the time to do so at home to relax. And I want to be able to use my
free time to the best benefit that I can rather than free time to sitting in here gaming with
brothers and having the lads good environment when you try to find other brothers and sisters to
game with.
		

			But rather than just having that in that space, you know that time just be gone. Now that time is
being used to upload streams to remind people about a loss or kind of without to remind them about
the purpose of life. We're also reminding each other so we're trying to gain some good deeds out of
that which we do even in our hobby time. And that's the best form of trying to gain some favor with
our x before Allah Subhana without destroying
		

			To find a way to do everything that we do to make some higher end and make some good in insha Allah
and that is our end goal is to create a professional Muslim gaming space to take the gaming industry
by storm and shot a long time. We have some very, very talented people in Muslim gamers leading
they're really good at gaming who are really good at it and it is an absolute profession these days
people are making six figures very easily on gaming and streaming and becoming professional gamers
part of the esports teams leagues hopefully we'll have our own team Muslim gamers league mgL on NBA
EA Sports one day insha Allah huzzah Anna, and we will be able to show and represent the Muslim
		

			faith in this space, which has been neglected. There is nobody out there doing it. There's nobody in
the gaming space. There's nobody in the gaming streaming space. There's nobody in the streaming
space period that is interacting with gamers to share the message of Islam. Yes, I found Muslims on
Twitch. But they're, they're giving lectures and that's fine. What I'm doing let me Allah bless you
in your endeavor. They're giving lectures, they're giving talks, they're giving, you know, little
mini conferences with four or five speakers. And that's fine for the audience who is going to come
for that. But for your average Muslim youth these days. And for your average non Muslim who is
		

			involved in who comes to twitch or comes to YouTube, that's not what they search for, and they're
not going to find you. We have to be able to reach them where they are, while still trying to
maintain the best permissibility as possible. We're going to our youth, our youth are coming 1700 of
them within three months have proven and this is without a lot of I haven't been pushing this hard.
I haven't been promoting it hard. I haven't been throwing it out there. It's just become kind of
word of mouth off of my social media. A couple of podcasts. I've been on a couple of videos I've
been on 1700 so far strong. And now we're going to continue to push it because I've seen the benefit
		

			that can happen. I've seen brothers and sisters come on to our discord, who are seeking answers who
are feeling like their distance from Allah subhanho wa Taala who are having emotional issues or
having mental issues, and we're able to create the space for them to help them to the best of our
abilities with something they enjoy and like to do. So we're trying to mix that hobby with bringing
people closer to the religion of a loss of handle without or remind them on law remind them of the
evils of gaming that are out there. When it comes to the addictiveness when it comes to, you know
the impermissibility of some games or shirt, * and music and all of these things were giving
		

			some guidance on the fact that we will continue to produce content on this channel to guide in that
factor like how to turn off you know, making sure you turn off all the music and the games, how to
avoid noodling the games, how to avoid adult content games, how to avoid getting trapped into the
addictiveness and the gambling portion of you know loot boxes and things of that nature. So we will
continue to try to produce that content to help those who are joining us at Muslim gamers league
keep their experience online is that impossible, as * if possible, as well as we'll be adding
more content creators over the coming months, where we will have insha Allah who to add a small army
		

			of content creators out there producing on YouTube on Twitch content and stream that reach out to
the broader gaming audience. About the dour to bring people towards the hate and loss of Hannah with
Ireland is oneness and enjoying a hobby that we love to do and that we're passionate about. Being
able to make something you're passionate about with the hour with your religion is a very amazing,
amazing way to blend the two together. That is why we created or That is why I decided to start and
create Muslim gamers league it would not have happened without the help of some amazing brothers up
with a Dingo who is my design editor and the design editor for mg on the logo and the banners and
		

			all of that stuff, our brother Meadow who was the moderator of the chat over the Dean chipata, I
think 360 our content creators been extra for those if I missed you, you know who you are, they have
made this possible and hamdulillah. And our goal is to continue to take this higher and higher and
higher and reach the Dow as far as we can, as well as bring the Muslim youth to an environment that
will keep them away from gangs. What I mean by gangs is just all sorts of craziness that they can
find in the online space and in the real world and bring them closer to a loss of Hannah without a
through this environment, games over gangs. So if you have any other suggestions that we can add to
		

			enhance the experience at NGO, please drop them right here.
		

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