Allah in religions other than Islam

God, as Abu Hanîfâ, the eminent 8th century scholar, wrote, was always called Allah, even before Islam was revealed. Then why is this Name of God not found in any of the pre-Islamic religions that exist today?
Actually it is—and in almost all of them. Lhâ (pronounced ‘lâh’) is the word that all Himâlayan Buddhists use for ‘deity’ (devata). Some Muslim scholars feel that the Name Allah is derived from ‘Al Lâh,’ which means ‘the God’ or, more precisely, ‘the secret one.’ Others say that Allah is short for Al Ilâh, which, too, means ‘the God.’
Mahatma Gandhi, who named his granddaughter Ila, pointed out that Ilâ meant God in Sanskrit. In the Yajur Ved, Ila is Agni (fire) while Ilaa (feminine) is the Earth. God is called Ilâh in Arabic, Ilâhee in Persian, Elohim (masculine) and Eloah (feminine) in Hebrew and Eilee in Aramaic. (Aramaic was one of the languages that Lord Jesus spoke.)