Is it permissible to take back a wife who has been divorced twice?

Question:
This is a question from the listener: Saud Abdullah al-Harbi from Hail. He says: I have a wife, and I have divorced her twice. Is it permissible for me to take her back again, or not?

Answer:
If a man divorces his wife twice, he has a third divorce remaining. He may take her back if she is in the waiting period, provided he did not divorce her in exchange for money, but rather divorced her without any money. He is permitted to take her back. If he divorces her for the third time, the matter is concluded, and he has no right to return to her, except after a new husband. After a husband who is connected to her—intercourse with her—through a valid, lawful marriage.
As for if she has exited the waiting period, by his divorcing her a second time, her observing the waiting period, and his not taking her back, then she is not lawful for him except through a new marriage. This is because she has separated from him with a minor separation during the waiting period. He may marry her in a new marriage like any other suitor, as long as she has a divorce remaining. If the third divorce is exhausted, she is forbidden to him until she marries another husband, as is the explicit text of the Noble Qur'an. Yes.