Bismilahir rahman ir rahim, Assalamualaikum Mufti saheb , my question is as follows;
Around september 2012 I had a huge fight with my wife and during the state of extreme anger I said talaq three times to her, her cousin who was present at the time said its not the way to do it so I wrote on a piece of paper talaq three times and gave it to her, my wife was menstruating at that particular time, after a few days three elders came to speak to us and said that the talaq is counted only as one and we should work out our problems, we agreed and after a few days my wife went to one of the Moulanas and asked if it was valid or not, he asked to speak to me and I went to see him, he asked me how I said it and I told him, he then said that we are divorced, we have been living seperately since then and we have a seven year old daughter, I would please like to know if we are divorced or not as we can work out our problems and live decently also do we have to make nikah again or not? JazakAllah, May Allah reward you well