The ruling on brothers and their wives gathering at one table

Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you well. He asks you and says: I am a young man about to get married, and praise be to Allah, I have proposed to a pious woman who has memorized twenty-five parts of the Qur'an, and this is a favor from Allah. However, Honorable Shaykh, my mother says that she wants me to marry and stay with them in the house, knowing that I have four older brothers in the house, and she wants us to stay together in eating, drinking, and sitting. So what is your guidance, may Allah preserve you?

Answer:
As for staying in the house with your mother, your brothers, and your wife, there is nothing wrong with that, on the condition that your wife observes hijab in front of your brothers, and that you take care to maintain sufficient covering in front of them, because they are non-mahram to her. And sitting, all of you together in one place, if she is covered and observing hijab, there is no objection to that either. As for eating together, this is not permissible, because this necessitates that she uncover her face or some part of her body for the sake of eating. This is not permissible. The men eat separately and the women eat separately, if there is no mahram relationship between them. Yes.