Al and Plato

Al-Ghazzali and Plato both agree that senses need to be forgotten in order to attain the truth. They diverge at the point where sufis use their senses to think about life and what it must really mean. However, sufis apparently have firm beliefs where they can distinguish between substantial and unsubstantial truth. From Plato's Allegory, a person gets truth by rejecting his senses and being enlightened.