Hazrat Mawlana Ayyub Surti Sahib (Majlis e Dawatul Haqq, Leicester UK) was in Zambia this year for I'tikaf. He recalls the I'tikaf in the following audio 20th August 2012 Islahi Majlis - Safarnama which can be found here http://www.majlisedawatulhaq.org.uk/index.php/audio Briefly, he says that when he was younger, he experienced I'tikaf with Hazrat Shaykhul Hadith Mawlana Zakariyya (rahimahullah) and that the I'tikaf in Zambia reminded him of those days.