Most people live on this earth for varying periods and then leave it, and if you were to ask about them, their traces and their works, you would find that they were like a summer cloud that quickly dispersed without raining; they lived many long years then died, having lived without anyone noticing them, and died without anyone knowing of them.
Making an Impact
What a person leaves behind of the results of their work, whether good or bad.
What is meant here is: the results of one's work, not the work itself, because the impact is a product of the work and subordinate to it, and is not necessarily the work itself. For how much work has had its impact cut off, or has no impact at all? Do you not see that Allah the Almighty said: (And We record what they have put forth and their traces. And all things We have enumerated in a clear register) — what they put forth are the deeds, good or bad, and the traces are the consequences of the results of those deeds.
Young people and students, those working in educational and outreach fields, and anyone interested in self-development.